Sensitivity Quotes

The little I am exposed to hurts my feelings. The only things I can really control are my songs and my behavior. The rest? If I focused on it, that would lead to insanity.

I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally.

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.

When we speak of a calm state of mind or peace of mind, we shouldn't confuse that with an insensitive state of apathy. Having a calm or peaceful state of mind doesn't mean being spaced out or completely empty. Peace of mind or a calm state of mind is rooted in affection and compassion and is sensitive and responsive to others.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

To know the pain of too much tenderness

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

I was born in an odd spot and was a very sensitive kid. My feelings could get hurt so easily because I always wanted to be loved, I wanted to be touched, I wanted to touch somebody. I wanted everybody to love me, so I think I was louder than I should have been. I was just trying to get attention. I always felt like I was somebody special, maybe it's because I needed to be somebody special.

I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.

What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?

Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.

A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.

I was always a lover of soft-winged things.

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.

I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me, I must scratch.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be wibrated..."

Don't operate on the heart with a hatchet.

It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child.

I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.

I'm not used to sensitivity any more. When I see people cry when I lose, save your tears. I don't know how to handle people crying any more. I lost my sensitivity like that. Please, you embarrass me when you cry because I don't know what to do when you cry. I don't know what to say.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

Sensitivity is a sign of strength. It's not about toughening up, it's about smartening up.

His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact, every word that he had to speak or listen to, an agony. Even in sleep he could not altogether escape form her image.

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.

What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

Men are sensitive in strange ways. If a man has built a fire and the last log does not burn, he will take it personally.