Genius Quote by Mary MacLane

“The opposite sensitive is not brave. It's not brave to refuse to pay attention, to refuse to notice, to refuse to feel and know…

— Glennon Doyle

“Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is…

— Shannon L. Alder

“A long mission was ahead of them, and no one wanted to get on anyone else's nerves with unnecessary chatter.”

— Allen Steele

If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does…

— Henry James

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

— George Orwell

In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

— Alfred Adler

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

— Maurice Ravel

It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by…

— D. H. Lawrence

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out of self-consciousness into passionate delight; it went on fluttering in…

— George Eliot

“Why is sensitivity perceived as being dangerous? When we’re sensitive, we feel things we were taught not to feel. When we’re sensitive, we are…

— Aletheia Luna