Quotes About Aloofness

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

Emotion in the heart is like poison in a substance, like fire latent in reeds-one ought to be aware of this. Therefore, as superior people do their work, they do not feel exalted when given status, do not feel aggrandized when honored, do not pay attention when treated familiarly, do not become suspicious when treated with aloofness, and cannot be abased. Thus they cannot be moved by emotions.

Frankly, I have no interest in politics.

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

You must know,' said Estella, condescending to me as a beautiful and brilliant woman might, 'that I have no heart

Up, then, would come Mrs General; taking all the colour out of everything, as Nature and Art had taken it out of herself;

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

He found trivial all that was meant to charm him and did not answer the glances which invited him to be bold.

Nothing really interested him—least of all the things that should have.

I'm not a recluse — I'm just playing hard-to-get with society.

She was, [Wilfrid Riley] recalled, "a very clever person, but you couldn't be at ease with her some way. She wasn't with you. She was up in the clouds, always studying poetry, what have you . . . You couldn't sit with her and converse with her like you can normal people." It wasn't pride, he thought, that made her this way. "Shyness came into it. She couldn't lend herself to people. She was a little bit aloof from people, and I don't think she intended to be.

Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become aquatinted. It was perpetual estrangement.

He could freeze his stupid dick off for all I cared.

Er verhehlte auch nie sein Desinteresse an etwas, gehörte zu denen, deren Nähe man nicht sucht, deren Fremdheit zugleich dauerirritiert.

There remained only those rare periods of amorousness which still came to them at times but did not last long. These were islets at which they anchored for a while and then again set out upon that ocean of veiled hostility which showed itself in their aloofness from one another. This aloofness might have grieved Ivan Ilych had he considered that it ought not to exist, but he now regarded the position as normal, and even made it the goal at which he aimed in family life. His

I felt very little tenderness for her, she was a stranger to me, a stranger who did not think or feel as I did.

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

She could easily have remarked on the heavy skiing weather, or asked how he could even see the road, or complained about the town not getting its ploughs out-- anything at all to show interest or pretend to show interest, the way people talk to make things a little more pleasant-- but no, not Katri Kling. There she stood squinting through her cigarette smoke, her black hair like a mane shrouding her face as she leaned over the table.

I did not share their joy or feel very kindly toward any of them

loved any man. She was committed but never owned. And when it no longer felt right, or got too close, she moved on. Her aloofness was a challenge to most men, and to Jean-Louis. They wanted to possess her and to

I do desire we may be better strangers.