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50 Quotes That Only Highly Sensitive People Will Understand

List Of 50 Quotes That Only Highly Sensitive People Will Understand:

#1 Jenn Granneman

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

#2 Elaine Aron

“Highly sensitive people might need complete silence after even a moderate and familiar stimulation, like a normal day of work.”

#3 RuPaul

”There are so many sensitive souls; they don’t know what to do with their feelings.”

#4 Marla Gibbs

”I grew up weird – very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.”

#5 Beyonce Knowles

”There’s my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energized and fun.”

#6 Mehmet Murat ildan

“There is no real silence for the sensitive ears and there is no real tranquility for the sensitive hearts!”

#7 Azereth Skivel

“I write, write and write but I can’t find words that define what I feel inside.”

#8 Amit Kalantri

“People have boldness to criticize but not to sensitize.”

#9 Marisha Pessl

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

#10 Jean-Claude Van Damme

”I’m one of the most sensitive human beings on Earth – and I know it.”

#11 Suzy Kassem

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

#12 Donna Lynn Hope

“Some people are far more cognizant than others but sensitivity has its own cross to bear and ample insight, in many cases, can bring on disquietude.”

#13 Lauren Graham

“You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier.”

#14 Holly Black

“I’m afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.”

#15 Rihanna

”I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.”

#16 Anthony Browne

”Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive.”

#17 Jim Brown

”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.”

#18 Sam Smith

”I’m a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.”

#19 Richelle E. Goodrich

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

#20 Emma Watson

“Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong…it is the time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum, not as two opposing sets of ideas.”

#21 Don Johnson

”I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.”

#22 Charles Eastman

”Nearness to nature… keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.”

#23 Dan Quayle

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

#24 Henry David Thoreau

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

#25 Edgar Allan Poe

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

#26 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

#27 Tory Burch

”Being a sensitive, thoughtful person opens you up for criticism and being affected by it.”

#28 Patricia Cornwell

”I’m very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.”

#29 Rachel Samson

“There is nothing wrong with you if there are times you get weighed down by the heaviness of the suffering in the world.”

#30 Jason Momoa

”I’m a strong alpha male but sensitive.”

#31 Shannon Alder

“The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.”

#32 David Sedaris

“I hate you’ she said to me one afternoon. ‘I really, really hate you.’ Call me sensitive, but I couldn’t help but take it personally.”

#33 Charles Dickens

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

#34 Tracy M. Kusmierz

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

#35 Mike Tyson

”My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.”

#36 Sia

”I’m sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.”

#37 Jim Morrison

”I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.”

#38 Leona Lewis

”I’m very sensitive and I’m quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.”

#39 Lauren Jarvis-Gibson

”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.”

#40 Alan Watts

”We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”

#41 Mandy Moore

“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.”

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#42 Cindy Timmers

“There are always people who are inspired by you, just because you are who you are.”

#43 Kelli Jae Baeli

“Am I too much for the world, or is the world too much for me?”

#44 Elaine Aron

“All virtues have their shadow.”

#45 Winona Ryder

”Am I too sensitive to be in this world?’ A feeling that the world is just too complicated for me right now, and I don’t feel like I belong here. But it passes, and fortunately today I feel blessed for all the good things in my life.”

#46 Tracy M. Kusmierz

“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.”

#47 Andre Sólo

“They hear nearly every sound, notice every movement, and process the expression on every person’s face. And that means that simply walking through a public space can be an assault on their senses.”

#48 Anonymous

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

#49 Richelle E. Goodrich

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

#50 Victoria Erickson

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

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