Quotes about being highly sensitive
“The thing is, sensitivity isn’t something a person chooses to be. It isn’t something that we can turn up and down, or switch on and off. Sensitivity lies deep within a person’s neurobiology.”
“Imagine if you felt every emotion five times longer and five times louder; that’s kind of what it’s like to be an HSP.”
“We try to be like others. But that leads to our becoming overaroused and distressed. Our trait of sensitivity means we will also be cautious, inward, needing extra time alone. Because people without the trait (the majority) do not understand that, they see us as timid, shy, weak, or that greatest sin of all, unsociable. Fearing these labels, we try to be like others. But that leads to our becoming overaroused and distressed. Then that gets us labeled neurotic or crazy, first by others and then by ourselves.”
“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him [read ‘her’ too] … 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. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create – so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency, he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
“Highly sensitive beings suffer more but they also love harder, dream wider and experience deeper horizons and bliss. When you’re sensitive, you’re alive in every sense of this word in this wildly beautiful world. Sensitivity is your strength. Keep soaking in the light…”
“Continually swimming in an endless sea of sensation can at times be exhausting, regardless if it’s beautifully terrible or terribly beautiful. And this is why your deep-rooted need for peace and self-care is essential to support your superb sensitivity”.
“You may be sensitive inside but what I see on the outside is a soldier.”
“Sometimes I think I need a spare heart to feel all the things I feel.”
“Highly sensitive people are … a PAIN!”
“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain”.
“The thing is, sensitivity isn’t something a person chooses to be. It isn’t something that we can turn up and down, or switch on and off. Sensitivity lies deep within a person’s neurobiology.”
“Imagine if you felt every emotion five times longer and five times louder; that’s kind of what it’s like to be an HSP.”
“We try to be like others. But that leads to our becoming overaroused and distressed. Our trait of sensitivity means we will also be cautious, inward, needing extra time alone. Because people without the trait (the majority) do not understand that, they see us as timid, shy, weak, or that greatest sin of all, unsociable. Fearing these labels, we try to be like others. But that leads to our becoming overaroused and distressed. Then that gets us labeled neurotic or crazy, first by others and then by ourselves.”
“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him [read ‘her’ too] … 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. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create – so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency, he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
“Highly sensitive beings suffer more but they also love harder, dream wider and experience deeper horizons and bliss. When you’re sensitive, you’re alive in every sense of this word in this wildly beautiful world. Sensitivity is your strength. Keep soaking in the light…”
“Continually swimming in an endless sea of sensation can at times be exhausting, regardless if it’s beautifully terrible or terribly beautiful. And this is why your deep-rooted need for peace and self-care is essential to support your superb sensitivity”.
“You may be sensitive inside but what I see on the outside is a soldier.”
“Sometimes I think I need a spare heart to feel all the things I feel.”
“Highly sensitive people are … a PAIN!”
“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain”.