Sensibility Quotes

315 Sensibility quotes by 272 unique authors

To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it… — Marcel Proust
Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new… — Bill Bryson
Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility. — Samuel Johnson
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility — George Santayana
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe. — Robert Burns
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. — Anna Brownell Jameson
When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or… — Simone Weil
The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. — Susan Sontag
Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The… — Susan Sontag
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence. — Remy de Gourmont
When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a… — Mark Leyner
You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows… — Matthew Modine
I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely. — Joanna Newsom
I think Chris Weitz is an amazing director, and his sensibility - I wouldn't even know how to articulate it - it's just, he's a… — Elizabeth Reaser
I like that New York sensibility where you can be edgy, but still super-glamorous. — Leven Rambin
I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to… — Ron Rash
I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level, inform me as… — Daniel Sunjata
I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read,… — Paullina Simons
Why not work with your friends? It's working with people you know, and you share the same sensibility. — Will Ferrell
My husband is my best friend; he knows my sensibilities. — Vera Farmiga
I wouldn't tell anyone to study werewolves - I studied wolves, how they moved, their tendencies and sensibilities. — Joe Manganiello
I grew up in Glen Ellyn, which is about 20 miles west of Chicago. I attended Glenbard South High School and University of Illinois. I… — Ryan McPartlin
The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think… — Barbara Hershey

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