Emotional Reactivity Quotes

Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

It's true I have a side of me that isn't very adult. I can get very emotional about things. I can become crazy, act the clown.

I often have the feeling that acting is really not difficult, because all I do is I just listen. I just listen. I just listen to what there is. And if there's nothing, then I listen to nothing. If there's a chair, and it's empty, I listen to an empty chair, and I will respond to it.

Growing up in Vancouver in the 1950s, I was often capricious and temperamental, quick to laugh, even quicker to feel despair, prone to flailing my arms, pouting and crying when things didn't go my way, or I thought something was unfair, or I was bullied by my sisters.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

For the average person, taken to their sick bed, it takes a serious bout of pneumonia or a full body cast to completely forget the life they had prior to falling off the rollercoaster. I, however, will do this over a paper cut on my thumb, obsessing of said cut and being generally consumed by it.

My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.

We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good. We don’t want to be wrong because then we’ll feel bad. But we could be more compassionate toward all these parts of ourselves. The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller. Wanting situations and relationships to be solid, permanent, and graspable obscures the pith of the matter, which is that things are fundamentally groundless.

Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.

Fear is a far more dominant force in human behaviour than euphoria - I would never have expected that or given it a moment's thought before, but it shows up in the data in so many ways.

Teenagers are like atoms when they're moving at hundreds of miles an hour and bouncing off each other. Everybody's got such a crazy hormonal drive and reacting to each other differently and getting upset over little things. High school puts all these potential explosions in one place.

I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.

I'm very sensitive in real life. I cannot not cry if someone around me is crying. I will start to cry if someone is crying, even if it's not appropriate. I have that thing in me, a weakness or sensitivity.

People are so quick to get offended.

My husband and I can't get through dinner without being defensive. We've been married 24 years, and I love my husband to death, but sometimes I say, "What are we? Two injured creatures who can't talk to each other without going, like, 'Ahhh!'?"

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.

A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always act on their feelings, and think it only right. The will is then left at the mercy of circumstances that evoke feelings. Christian spiritual formation today must squarely confront this fact and overcome it.

I am reactive.

I get stressed out really easily.

I'm a very sensitive person by nature. Things move me very easily, like music or videos on Facebook, and I feel for people.

Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.

I'm super-sensitive when it comes to my sister. I've been known to snap off a little bit behind her.

I'm way too hypersensitive.

People say, 'Oh Mark, you're a big softie, and you burst into tears so easily.'

I'm very sensitive to criticism, particularly when it's very, very personal.