60 Being Sensitive Quotes and Sayings

“Sensitive people suffer more, but they love more and dream more.” – Augusto Cury

“Do not give in too much to feelings. An overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.”

“Never apologize for being sensitive or emotional. It’s a sign that you have a big heart, and that you aren’t afraid to let others see it. Showing your emotions is a sign of strength.”

“To the girls who get called sensitive too often, don’t let the bitter in the heart stop you from feeling everything deeply. To feel is to experience life fully.”

“To the girls who get called sensitive too often, don’t let the bitter in heart stop you from feeling everything deeply. To feel is to experience life fully.”- Sarah Ashley

“All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.”- Clive Bell

“Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist…”

“No matter who it is or how comfortable you are with someone, when anyone yells at you or talks down to you, you immediately erupt in tears.” — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson

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

“Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.”- Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Being highly sensitive is both a gift and a responsibility.”

“The real warriors in this world are the ones that see the details of another’s soul.”

“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

“Am I too sensitive to be in this world?”

“Sensitive person is like an ice; if you warm him, he’ll melt.”- Kozma Prutkov

“You value vulnerability over anything else.”- Marisa Donnelly

“I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.”- Ferdinand de Saussure

“For a highly sensitive person, a drizzle feels like a monsoon.”

“Sensitive people like a slower pace of life. We like pondering all our options before making a decision and regularly reflecting on our experiences. We hate busy schedules and rushing from one event to the next.” — Jenn Granneman

“Sensitive to symptoms could enhance security.”- Toba Beta

“Highly sensitive people learned early in life to try to control the external world as a way to attempt to manage their inner one.” ― Sheryl Paul

“Highly sensitive people tend to have stronger emotional responses than others.”

“To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.”- Herman Melville

“To be sensitive is fine, but it makes day-to-day living- life -rather painful.”- Marisha Pessl

“Being overly sensitive to rejection can become a destructive virus.”- Robert Herjavec

“As a highly sensitive person, every little thing elicits a strong reaction in me.” ― Tracy M. Kusmierz

“It seems my heart is made of tissue paper; I wish the world would handle it more delicately.”

“To be sensitive is fine, but it makes a day-to-day living- life -rather painful.” ― Marisha Pessl

“Be sensitive and try to understand other people’s pain. Sometimes that’s all they need to heal.”

“I’m extremely-extremely sensitive. I can cry at the drop of a hat…Anything upsets me. I cry all the time. I cry when I’m happy too.” ― Mandy Moore

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

“The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”- Helen Keller

“Always try to be more sensitive about people’s feelings. Because there are times that a tear means happiness and a smile means hurt.”- Rani Waghule

“Highly sensitive beings suffer more but they also love harder…”

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

“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

“A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad…. Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.”- Rajneesh

“Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.”- Norton Juster

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

“Even a moderate and familiar stimulation, like a day at work, can cause a highly sensitive person to need quiet by evening.”- Elaine N. Aron

“Women are sensitive, they overthink every little thing and they care way more than they should, but that’s what makes their love so strong.”

“Sensitive people either love deeply or they regret deeply. There really is no middle ground because they live in passionate extremes.”- Shannon L. Alder

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

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”- Henry David Thoreau

“Those who are critical don’t like being criticized, and those who are insensitive have a deficiency in their senses.”- Suzy Kassem

“You cannot make everyone think and feel as deeply as you do. This is your tragedy because you understand them but they do not understand you.”

“High sensitivity is not a disease or a disorder. It’s not something that needs to be overcome or fixed.”

“Sensitive souls draw in the negativity of others because they are so open.”- John Gray

“Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls.”- Robert Walser

“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.” – Charles Dickens

“People need to learn that their actions do affect other people. So be careful what you say and do, it’s not always just about you.”

“Highly sensitive people learned early in life to try to control the external world as a way to attempt to manage their inner one.”

“As a highly sensitive person, I can sense your mood from a mile away. Don’t try to hide it. You’re not fooling me.”

“For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much.”- Jim Carrey

“As a highly sensitive person, every little thing elicits a strong reaction in me.”

“A sensitive soul sees the world through the lens of love.”

“Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.”- Jim Rohn

“To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness…”

“God’s heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.”- Richard J. Foster

“Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.”- Alfred Adler