#sensibility

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet. ↗

— Witold Lutoslawski

#cannot #concentrate #destroyed #lifts #music

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#girly #grew #i #kind #prejudice

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. ↗

— Frederick Law Olmsted

#arbitrary #arbitrary power #destroy #humane #irresistibly

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#certain #course #critic #entire #entitled

People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is. ↗

— Rob Corddry

#exactly #know #other #our #people

Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#humans #life #sensibility #death

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#being #books #built #i #i think

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#impresses #nearly #originality #our #sensibility

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#another #closely #cure #egotism #excessive

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#busy #deeds #feelings #good #good deeds