Sensitive Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old sensitive quotes, sensitive sayings, and sensitive proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Sensitive people should be treasured. They love deeply and think deeply about life. They are loyal, honest, and true. The simple things sometimes mean the most to them. They don't need to change or harden. Their purity makes them who they are. Kristen Butler
One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole. Barbara Hepworth
A sensible person is one who has a sensitive nature towards all living creatures and this is his or her best personality features towards the positive outlook in life. Anuj Somany
As a sensitive person around other people, you feel their desires, you feel their angers, and you feel their frustrations. You begin to believe that these desires, angers, and frustrations are yours. Frederick Lenz
Some people are going to reject you, simply because you shine too bright for them. And that's okay. Keep shining. Anonymous
To break up with a girl be direct. You have to behave the way you would want her to behave, and I would want the door to be closed. You have to be sensitive but honest. You have to be a gentleman and do it in person. You have to look her in the eyes. BRADLEY COOPER
It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded. Charles Dickens
We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally. Dalai Lama
The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world. Dorothea Brande
The people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something and do not see life in terms of power. E. M. Forster
Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting. Elizabeth Bowen
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive. Henry David Thoreau
Leaders who want to show sensitivity should listen often and long and talk short and seldom. Many so-called leaders are too busy to listen. True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested. J. Oswald Sanders
Sensitivity isn't about being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom Jeff Buckley
To be sensitive is fine, but it makes a day-to-day living- life -rather painful. Marisha Pessl
God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each. Meister Eckhart
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. Pearl S. Buck
Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are. Pema Chodron
The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most. Shannon Alder