Sensitive Person Quotes - Page 2

• Is there really someone who, searching for a group of wise and sensitive persons to regulate him for his own good, would choose that group of people that constitute the membership of both houses of Congress?

  Robert Nozick

  Wise, People, House

  Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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• Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls

  Robert Walser

  Wall, Cities, Ancient

  Robert Walser (2013). “The Walk”, p.43, Profile Books

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• Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

  Rick Yancey

  Personality, Habit, Used

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.132, Penguin

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• What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

  Rollo May

  Country, Courage, Moving

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• Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it’s better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it’s hard to keep going.

  Dianna Agron

  Rejection, Age, Used

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a very sensitive person. I do like to be respected. I'm very loyal. I like it to be a two-way street.

  Jim Brown

  Two, Loyal, Way

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• I might as well be gay. And not just because I love rhinestones and Barbara Streisand. But because Im a sensitive person who is supportive of gay people the same way Im sensitive to grossly obese people and ugly people.

  Richard Simmons

  Gay, People, Supportive

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• I'm a very sensitive person, and I feel what makes me vulnerable. But I see that as a good thing. I really enjoy experiencing all the different emotions in life.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Different, Emotion, Vulnerable

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• I'm a very sensitive person at times. Not just to words that anybody says, but in relationships for example, the people that you open up to, you listen to, you hear - you know? So a lot of times, the key to some of my vulnerability is just through things, simple things - or critiques or whatever - or could be very simple things that are said.

  Saul Williams

  Simple, Keys, People

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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