Quotes About Aloofness

He says his parents were "really uptight and not very affectionate," and, consequently, young J grew up somewhat aloof and self-absorbed. All the furniture in his room was arranged to create a wall around his bed, and there he'd lie for hours, listening to music.

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

Let him love none and be by none beloved!

I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.

não posso mais odiá-los, porque nada me une a eles; não temos nada em comum

Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.

I usually kept everybody at arm's distance.

Leeth sat beside Ays and he smiled at her cooly; an aloofness that in the face of a beloved is devastatingly bewitching.

His life comprised small, precise pleasures. Most people liked him, for he was quiet and gentle, but he did not yearn for their company. His ironic smile, springing auburn hair and attenuated good looks pleased women, yet he seemed not to notice the messages in their eyes.

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.

I don't like having feelings, Eric said coldly, and he left.

she was never, I felt, truly emotionally warm towards anyone

He felt removed from reality.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

What's important to me is that there's a necessary alienation between me and the subject. I don't want to know them well. I don't want to have any intimate contact with them.

But he was a hard man, Mrs Peters. Just to pass the time of day with him—(shivers) Like a raw wind that gets to the bone,

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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I don't get involved with the music scene any more. It's just alien to me.

The ice was there. The distance between him and the rest of the world.

Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?

Nothing apparently, disturbed the mans air of having his mind on something more important than you. You wanted to slap him.

aloof from the society of ordinary mortals