“You are beautiful, you are sensitive, you are sweet and I don’t want to see you get hurt.”— Jason Katims, Eric Taylor, Kyle Chandler, imdb.com
“I’m not talking about myself here, but I think we should all realize sensitive people—and I’m not talking about myself—in this day and age, on this planet, with the multitude of media input and psychological bombardment, have to be really careful. They’re going to have to find some way to create som…”— Eddie Vedder, huffingtonpost.com
“I admire people who have the ability to touch you and still be thousands of miles from your presence.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com
“Sensitivity isn’t being wimpy. It’s about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom.”— Jeff Buckley, amazon.com
“She would not say of any one in the world that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“You do not need people to understand the chaotic emotions you are experiencing. Do not apologize for shedding a few tears. Do not try to explain. Cry as much as you need to. It does not make your problems wither away but it helps you to feel better about yourself. We are human after all.”— Fiqs Afdul, thoughtcatalog.com
“You are an independent woman. A woman with a strong heart and passionate soul. You cannot let go of that part of you, the part that decides for herself, finds strength in her ability to stand alone. Yet you cannot be afraid to love. You cannot be afraid to embrace that ridiculously emotional side of…”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“You let him in. You feel weak, dependent, breakable. You have become the woman that let a man in, who trusted him, who can easily be crushed by the same hands that touch her. So you swing to the other side. You pull away. You spend time alone, just recharging, remembering that sense of self. Letting…”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“You love with a passion that’s sickening. A consuming, knotting, mess of emotion that interweaves you with another person.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“At the end of the day, sensitive people are misunderstood and often a target to people who can sense their sensitivity or their vulnerability. So to protect yourself, you act like you’re tough and you even get defensive because you don’t want anyone to hold your sensitivity against you.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“All your life, people have called you over dramatic. Because you feel everything so loudly and passionately, you often times give people the wrong idea. In reality, you just feel with every ounce of your being and you do so without apologizing.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“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, thoughtcatalog.com