Jeff Buckley Quotes

I'm sensitive to the things I see.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

People often ask me how I get so many unique experiences while they get none. I tell them the difference is in the sensitivity. I can observe those small emotions, which may look trivial to others.

A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel.

As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

You seize sentiment better when you get clear of nature. You breathe it in every sense!

Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.

I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who's in tune with what's really going on.

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

I tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.