Susan Cain Quotes

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

I'm a sensitive, sensitive person. Overly sensitive. Extremely emotional.

I'm a very sensitive guy!

I was a sensitive boy.

I am a sensitive person.

I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in such moments of lucidity, when I look at myself, I see that I am alone, all alone, all alone.

Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.

My sensitivity level is high, but I think that's one of my assets as an actor.

Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.

The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.

In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we have to use their language in the narrow sense of the mind. Something that goes even much further than that is not the appeal to logic and reason, but some kind of emotional awareness of the other people.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

I guess the biggest world difference you can make is in people's relations to their own emotions, 'cause emotions rule so much of our daily life, and I think that's where we work.

You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

It's such a simple thing, really. It's an awareness that the other people in the world are other people, and that you are one of them. That every time you have a chance to help somebody out, to do what's right instead of what you think you're supposed to do, you should do it.

I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.' Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?

I don't want to hurt people.

Today's tragedy in Paris reminds us very viscerally that it's a right that some people are inexplicably forced to die for. So it's very important tonight that I express that everybody who works at our comedy show, all of us are terribly sad for the families and people of France and anybody in the world tonight who now has to think twice before making a joke. It's not the way it's supposed to be.

Some people are more nice than wise.

You're not me. You can't feel like I feel." "I can feel." "No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine." "It's not fine. It's just not so bad.

Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt

It's amazing when tragedy strikes, how strong you find that you are, and I'd seen other people go through horrible things. And I just thought, "Wow, I would be a complete mess," and then suddenly when it happens, you realize you had more strength than you knew and it helps you to get through.