Heightened Sensitivity Quotes

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

Every sound alarms.

I think maybe I was numb to it last year.. but you know I feel it now more than ever

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

Refine your senses a little more each day; stretch them...your awareness will pierce deeply into your body and into the world.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.

It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.

Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.

When I was pregnant, I couldn't wear fragrance. I couldn't smell anything. I couldn't smell flowers, I was very sensitive to everything. I could smell orange juice from across the room and I remember thinking, 'I will throw up.'

During teenager times, the feelings of longing is perhaps at its most strong and profound because everything feels multiplied by ten.

My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.

I feel like all teenagers can relate to that feeling of being, like, so highly strung, and everything is so on the surface, and everything is so extreme.

I'm painfully aware of my surroundings at all times.

Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.

I'm more temperamental. As I've got older, I've become more demanding.

Taking a hypersensitive approach to life had come to seem so much more pure and honest then joining the ranks of the numb masses who could let it all slide by. What I stopped realizing was that if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. Everything registers at the same decibel.