227 Quotes About Sensitivity

Am I too much for the world, or is the world too much for me?

One was too sensitive,too raw,there were thorns and pin-pricks in so many words that in reality fell lightly on the air.

Sensitivity and resolve are opposites. You need good negotiation skills to retain both.

Creative people, as I see them, are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of the “divine madness,” to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks. They do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. They knock on silence for an answering music; they pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.

If any language were to be understood, one would have to understand first the unutterable sound of silence in the human soul through empathy and compassion, for there is more to the silence of individual heart and mind than what has been tangibly spoken or acted out between people. (— Danny Castillones Sillada, The Unspoken Infinities of Silence)

Humor and sensitivity are the man's best qualities to earn the heart of a woman.

Indeed, he was sensitive rather than responsive. In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream.

You musn't mind people so much. They're not being disagreeable to you -- it's their way. You always think people are meaning things for you. But they don't.

We are deeply sensitive to one another's presence