Quotes about Sensibility

Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.

Drum sei kein schellenlauter Tor, denn rechter Sinn und Weisheit tragen sich von selber vor.

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Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me...All comes from thee, great-great SENSORIUM of the world!

Art is the objectification of feeling.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

All husbands are boring, John. No woman with an ounce of sense gets married to be entertained, she marries to be maintained.

That as he knew his obligation to love GOD in all things, and as he endeavored so to do, he had no need of a director to advise him, but that he needed much a Confessor to absolve him. That he was very sensible of his faults, but not discouraged by them; that he confessed them to GOD, but did not plead against Him to excuse them. When he had so done, he peaceably resumed his usual practice of love and adoration.

Why don't ye be sensible, Flask? it's easy to be sensible; why don't ye, then? any man with half an eye can be sensible. I don't know that, Stubb. You sometimes find it rather hard.

I don't want to take off my shirt and roam topless all the time, just for the heck of it.

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.