Quotes About Aloofness

I think I love him for this loneliness, that it's what pushed me toward him. I love his aloofness, his disengagement with the outside world. Such singularity moves me.

On the outside, Tony said, not wanting to spend time with your criminally insane neighbors would be a perfectly understandable position. But on the inside it demonstrates you're withdrawn and aloof and you have a grandiose sense of your own importance.

Without knowing it, I was acquiring that haughty bearing which is characteristic of so many eccentrics. What other expression would you expect to find on the face of anyone who knows that if he turns his head too quickly, he will see on the faces of others glares of stark terror or grimaces of hatred? Aloofness is the posture of self-defense.

I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who'd rather avoid them.

I despise hearing about other people's problems, because I don't like most people, especially people who would be described as normal.

There's nothing colder than chemistry.

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

Every virtue can come with its own accompanying vice. The virtue of reticence can yield the vice of aloofness.

While aloofness might fascinate others and makes them respect you, it will never allow for intimacy and profound relationships.

In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.

We have stood apart, studiously neutral.

Time will come when one's safety lies in ten things: nine of which are in staying aloof from men, and the tenth in staying silent.

You've deprived yourself of enjoyment for most of your life. You're aloof from others. You've never let yourself be selfish, and look where it's got you. Your 'morals' have left you with a short, strict life. Can you tell me now, just before you're about to die, that you don't wish you'd maybe allowed yourself an little more fun?

And just stared, unmoved, as though watching a world in which she was no longer an inhabitant.

They were snobs or idiots or both...yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness.

People are starting to notice the great divide. The Tea party sees the aloofness in a political elite that thinks it knows best and orders the rest of America to fall in line. The Occupy movement sees it in an economic elite that lives in mansions and flies on private jets.

He became reflective and, somehow, withdrawn [zamknutym]. He gave up games but not books, and would go off in a corner and read assiduously."[127] Thus, young Djugashvili began to show the reticence and brooding aloofness from others that would characterize him in later years.

People who rush to the support of others tend to gain little respect in the process, for their help is so easily obtained, while those who stand back find themselves besieged with supplicants. Their aloofness is powerful, and everyone wants them on their side.

It is sometimes best to leave things alone. If there is something you want but cannot have, show contempt for it. The less interest you reveal, the more superior you seem.

Daily Law: If you are too present and familiar, always available and visible, you seem too banal. You give people no room to idealize you. But if you are too aloof, people cannot identify with you. The Laws of Human Nature, 15: Make Them Want to Follow You—The Law of Fickleness

Pride is cold company

She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met a woman.

Look at the face I don't have, Craven, and tell me if it looks like I care.

There's nothing colder than chemistry.