Hypersensitive Quotes

#1. I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive and somehow disjointed and clumsy, lacking normal coordination. And soon I was in the throes of a pervasive hypochondria.

William Styron

#2. If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.

Megan Whalen Turner

#3. So perhaps there are no phantom pains after all; perhaps all pain is real; perhaps each long-ago blow lives on into eternity in some different permutation and shape; perhaps the body is this hypersensitive, revengeful entity, a ledger book, a warehouse of remembered slights and cruelties.

Thrity Umrigar

#4. You don't have to know everything as long as you know people who know the things you don't

Harvey MacKay

#5. Ultimately, I felt fortunate, because in many ways I did identify with aspects of being gay that were very stereotypical. I was a big theatre kid in high school, I was creative, I was very emotionally sensitive, even hypersensitive. I loved female divas.

Christopher Rice

#6. If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.

Laura Schlessinger

#7. I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.

Judy Garland

#8. When this low self-worth is hidden, one can understand why the person becomes hypersensitive to the opinions of others and has a great deal of difficulty accepting criticism no matter how warranted or gently said.

David W. Earle

#9. No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all. They tend to be hypersensitive, taut, neurotic creatures driven by God know what obscure compulsion to earn their living the hard way.

Margaret Halsey

#11. When our identities are tethered to externals, our sense of self-worth is always in danger. In the end, we become hypersensitive, insecure, and discontent, always comparing ourselves to the next parent, the next young professional, the next pastor across town. But

David Hickman

#12. How can our leaders be so hypersensitive to the most microscopic of perceived anti-Jewish slurs, yet so entirely indifferent to flagrant and vicious anti-Christian insults?

Daniel Lapin

#13. Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.

Max Born

#14. I make my hand my whole world. Hand hand hand hand. I push through the sand and light and heat, and with every bit of strength I have in me, I squeeze back.

Rae Carson

#15. Something in his manner makes me want to confide things to him I've never told anyone. Even painful things, shameful things. I didn't know how badly I wanted to share them.

Christina Baker Kline

#16. Conflict may be defined as a situation of competition in which the parties are aware of the incompatibility of potential future positions, and in which each party wishes to occupy a position that is incompatible with the wishes of the other.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#17. For their most innocent words were acts of violence to which we of the campus were hypersensitive though we endured them not.

Ralph Ellison

#18. The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe.

Polly Horvath

#19. I remain quiet. I am determined to close myself to the world, to tighten my heart and hold what has not yet been stolen from me. I cannot let myself slip away. I will hold what I am inside, and keep my hands tight around all the things I have seen and heard, and felt.

Hannah Kent

#20. Mrs. Thatcher responded to our liberation of Grenada with the sounds of a somewhat hypersensitive Neville Chamberlain.

Emmett Tyrrell

#21. We artists are hypersensitive, or we wouldn't be - couldn't be - artists.

R. O. Blechman

#22. When I was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.

Larry Bird

#23. People are scared. People are generally xenophobic - they're scared of what's different. If you're ignorant as well as scared, then you might end up hating something that you're scared of.

Kate Nash

#24. People who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments. They're with us in the grocery store, as we turn a corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles.

Christina Baker Kline

#25. Tolstoy's characters seem to come forward to meet you, very conscious of the impression they are making on one another and on the reader.

Stephen Spender

#26. I avoided situations that might otherwise trip or jangle my hypersensitive wiring, and I learned to pretend I was paying attention or following a logical point when my mind qas off chasing rabbits in a thousand directions.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#27. I think one of the secrets to modelling is the less you care and the more you're yourself, the more successful you are.

Daria Werbowy