Sensitive Quotes

I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison

Important, Human, Soul

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison

Important, Human, Soul

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allan Poe

Beauty, Soul, Whatever

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

Heart, Feelings, Give

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
Marilyn Monroe

Actor, Instrument, Supposed

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

Good, Care, Everybody

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
Emily Post

Good, Feelings, Others

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

Heart, Rather, Wounded

Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.
Nora Ephron

Men, True, Feelings

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

Long, Country, Everyone

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.
Jeff Bridges

Hurt, Alive, Cynicism

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
H. P. Lovecraft

Beauty, Pay, Instrument

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

Person, Weakness, Biggest

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.
Shel Silverstein

Truth, Wise, Perfect

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Alan Watts

God, Experience, Brain

I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.
Orlando Bloom

Women, Father, Woman

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

Pain, Cannot, Pleasure

I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.
Freddy Fender

Love, Time, Romantic

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
Paul Wellstone

Politics, Speak, Lives

I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.
Ellen DeGeneres

Sad, Person, Sometimes

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
Barbara de Angelis

Women, Men, Ways

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Dan Quayle

History, Weird, Impact

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.
Elliott Smith

Play, Guitar, Guy

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.
Drew Barrymore

Powerful, Words, Old

Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.
Robert Plant

Men, Old, Areas

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
Arthur Rimbaud

Life, Youth, Wasted

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
Marquis de Sade

Character, Person, Others

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.
Luis Gutierrez

Health, Year, Rights

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.
Henry Louis Gates

Racism, America, Become

I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.
Shirley MacLaine

Pain, Human, Artist

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