Quotes of Sensibility - somelinesforyou

“ From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

“ I have a woman's body and a child's emotions. ”

- Elizabeth Taylor

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

- Henry David Thoreau

“ A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them. ”

- Vernon Howard

“ Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. ”

- Salman Rushdie

“ Too quick a sense of constant infelicity. ”

- Jeremy Taylor

“ I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country. ”

- Larry Craig

“ Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity. ”

- Edouard Manet

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

- Mike Tyson

“ Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst. ”

- Bryant McGill

“ The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art. ”

- Max Beerbohm

“ I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ How frail the human heart must be — a mirrored pool of thought. ”

- Sylvia Plath

“ To touch the quick. ”

- Sophocles

“ And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. ”

- Thomas Moore

“ Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to by brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. ”

- Bible

“ Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of wo. ”

- Robert Burns

“ We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art. ”

- Maurice Ravel

“ Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions. ”

- J.D. Salinger

“ Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men. ”

- Luigi Russolo

“ From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves. ”

- Patty Duke

“ Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. ”

- Wallace Stevens

“ Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. ”

- William Tecumseh Sherman

“ Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us. ”

- Immanuel Kant
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