Veronica Roth Quotes

I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone -- She never deemed -- she hurt -- That -- is not Steel's Affair -- A vulgar grimace in the Flesh -- How ill the Creatures bear -- To Ache is human -- not polite -- The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom -- Just locking up -- to Die.

I'm constantly on the brink of tears in conversation about things that happen to people.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

I feel like I'm kind of a bit of a sponge in a way. Like, if people around me are going through things, I find it very hard not to be empathetic.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.

It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.

I'm really super feminine, and I'm really soft. I'm very sensitive, I realized.

I was a sensitive boy.

Woman is very much more in contact with their feeling than a man. As a matter of fact, woman always teach to men how to love.

I'm very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.

I was a sensitive kid.

I'm a very sensitive person.

I am surprisingly very sensitive.

It's OK to get your feelings hurt.

In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.

It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

I've learned that hurting you feels infinitely worse than being hurt myself.

In a contagious world,we learn to keep our distance. If we get too close to those who are suffering, we might get infected by their pain. It may not be convenient or comfortable. But only when you get close enough to catch their hurt will they be close enough to catch your love.

You hurt the ones you love the most. Because it hurts you the most.

I'm not unaware of how I'm perceived, I just don't care about it. Unless I really hurt someone's feelings. I care about that.

being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.