Sensibility Quotes

“The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one's soul.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have. ”
― Anne Tyler

“I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.”
― Jess C Scott, The Other Side of Life

“Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.”
― Tiffany Madison

“She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt”
― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship and Other Early Works

“Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me...All comes from thee, great-great SENSORIUM of the world!”
― Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey

“Because at night
when others are sleeping,
I drown myself
in poetry.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“No matter how much you love a man, always have a stash of money that would get you as far away from him as possible in an emergency.”
― Dorothy Koomson, The Woman He Loved Before

“Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behavior.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Every day the material world mistreats me. My sensibility is like a flame in the wind. I walk down the street and I see in the faces of the passers-by, not their real expressions, but the expressions they would wear if they knew about my life and how I am, if the ridiculous, timid abnormality of my soul were made transparent in my gestures and in my face. In the eyes that avoid mine I suspect a mockery I find only natural, aimed at the inelegant exception I represent in a world that takes pleasure in things and in activity and, in the depths of these passing physiognomies, I imagine and interpose an awareness of the timid nature of my life that sparks off guffaws of laughter. After thinking this, I try in vain to convince myself that I alone am the source of this idea of other people's mockery and mild opprobrium. But once objectified in others, I can no longer reclaim the image of myself as a figure of fun. I feel myself grow suddenly vague and hesitant in a hothouse rife with ridicule and animosity. From the depths of their soul, everyone points a finger at me. Everyone who passes stones me with merry insolence. I walk amongst enemy ghosts that my sick imagination has conjured up and planted inside real people. Everything jabs and jeers at me. And sometimes, in the middle of the road - unobserved, after all - I stop and hesitate, seeking a sudden new dimension, a door onto the interior of space, onto the other side of space, where without delay I might flee my awareness of other people, my too objective intuition of the reality of other people's living souls.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

“Thorns with rose petals, beauty with imperfection, softness of insensibility, pain of love; duality of human nature”
― Val Uchendu

“...and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves illaudable, appeared to her not merely an unnecessary effort, but a disgraceful subjection of reason to common-place and mistaken notions.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Art fuels the fire inside me.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“[...] benché in genere bastino pochissime ore trascorse nella fatica di parlare incessantemente a esaurire molti più argomenti di quanti possano avere davvero in comune due creature raziocinanti, con gli innamorati è diverso. Tra loro nessun argomento è mai finito, niente è davvero detto che non sia ripetuto almeno una ventina di volte.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Love me for my affection, love me even for my weakness; I am satisfied myself. I prefer my feelings to all the fine sentiments of Seneca or Epictetus.”
― Marie Rabutin-Chantal De Sevigne, The Letters of Madame De Sevigne to Her Daughter and Friends

“The real measure of your education is the product of your sensibility to values and contextual wisdom after your degrees are kept at bay .”
― Priyavrat Thareja

“I displayed from my earliest years the greatest sensibility of disposition. I cannot say with what passion I loved every thing even the inanimate objects that surrounded me. I believe that I bore an individual attachment to every tree in our park; every animal that inhabited it knew me and I loved them. Their occasional deaths filled my infant heart with anguish. I cannot number the birds that I have saved during the long and severe winters of that climate; or the hares and rabbits that I have defended from the attacks of our dogs, or have nursed when accidentally wounded.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“[...] for it was many days since she had any appetite, and many nights since she had really slept; and now, when her mind was no longer supported by the fever of suspense, the consequence of all this was felt in an aching head, a weakened stomach, and general nervous faintness. A glass of wine, which Elinor procured for her directly, made her more comfortable [...].”
― Jane Austen

“the rent here may be low but i believe we have it on very hard terms --sense & sensibility”
― Jane Austen

“It is maintained by some that travel has no educational value, that a person with sensibility can gain as rich an experience of life by staying right where he is as by wandering around the world, and that a person with no sensibility may as well remain at home anyway. To me this is nonsense, for if one is a bore, I maintain that it is better to be a bore about Peshawar than Upper Tooting.”
― Richard Hillary, The Last Enemy: The Centenary Collection

“Ambos factores son importantes para el funcionamiento de la memoria: si no nos volviéramos tolerantes a las experiencias conocidas, siempre nos resultarían nuevas y potencialmente abrumadoras. El cerebro probablemente se quedaría sin capacidad de almacenaje, como un ordenador viejo. De manera similar, si no nos volviéramos cada vez más sensibles a ciertas cosas, no seríamos capaces de mejorar el modo de responder ante ellas.”
― Bruce D. Perry, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook

“Normal sensibility is a tissue of what has been conscious theory made habitual and returned to the pre-conscious, and, therefore, conscious theory may make an addition to sensibility even though it draws no (or no true) conclusion, formulates no general theory, in the scientific sense, which reconciles and makes quickly available the results which it describes.”
― William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity

“If it's really hard to find a sensible person around, become one.”
― Raheel Farooq

“The goal of the poem is not to conceal uncertainty and to deliver an airtight argument, or proclamation, or insight, not to arrive at some truth, but rather to display the nature of the speaker's "real-time" sensibility, including its tendency toward indecisiveness and self-contradiction.”
― Tony Hoagland, The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice

“Later, this understanding evolved into a fear of my own susceptibility to madness, but as a child I simply understood that a person could not live with an open channel to the sublime inside them; it was impossible to hold on to the collective story of human life with that live cord writhing through you, showering sparks like a downed wire in a hurricane. Human life was defined by composure and linearity, school bus routes and homework and gender and bedtimes and taxes. Though I could meet its requirements most of the time, I knew my adherence to the logic of reality was tenuous, that a more feral sensibility reigned beneath it.”
― Melissa Febos, Girlhood

“Ye Khaaki Kaar-E-Ashiyaane me masroof hogaya,

Ye mai ke is jaal me mashghool hogaya;

Jab khuli nazar dekh apne aap ko hairat me rehgaya,

Ye Fikr-E-Haal-E-Dil aur Khudi se mehroom rehgaya;”
― Qhavi Hussain