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Quotes About Expressionless

For me, it's always been draining to be around people for too long because I'm naturally a pretty expressionless person. From an early age, I found being alone incredibly liberating.
~ Kevin Parker
you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.
~ John Kennedy Toole
it was like staring at a whitewashed wall, but without all the emotion
~ Joe Abercrombie
You dropped this, he said, totally poker-faced.
~ Rick Riordan
Tori joined us for dinner --in body, at least. She spent the meal practicing for a role in the next zombie movie, expressionless, methodically moving fork to mouth, sometimes even with food on it.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Viv feels the hand go bloodless and numb against her neck; startled, she turns to look at his face. There is no expression at all. For a moment he is gone from his face, as though he had fallen somewhere inward, away from her and the old man and the fire, into a remote pool of himself
~ Ken Kesey
Emotions often must be portrayed from an inner feeling, of course, but I had a double advantage because I was learning to direct my as-yet expressionless feelings as well as gaining an ability to express emotion by a very conscious manipulation of my muscles.
~ Jane Greer
Pike held out Karen's photograph. "Have you seen this woman?" "No. I am sorry." Every word like that. Without contractions.
~ Robert Crais
Tarabelle was sixteen and almost as tall as Mama. She had long, jet black hair, a copper-colored complexion, and the cold, black eyes of a dead poker player. I had never seen the eyes of a dead person - in fact, I had never seen a poker game - but I had heard that poker faces were expressionless, and I knew that dead people showed no emotion. That was Tarabelle. She stepped back, regarded our mother with those cold black eyes. Her mouth twitched as if she might smile, but I knew better.
~ Delores Phillips
They both continue to stare at each other, expressionless, motionless, in the weirdest standoff I've ever seen almost as if they're calling the other's bluff. It is the way you'd look at a perfect stranger, although if they were actually strangers someone would break down and exchange a pleasantry after such prolonged eye contact. I start to wonder if maybe I shouldn't reintroduce my own parents.
~ Emily Giffin
and it was said that the soldiers "all had the same expression because they had no expression at all.
~ Rick Atkinson
Blank eyes. Empty eyes. A doll's eyes. Eyes more dead than death.
~ Robert Jordan
This is funny," she says without a trace of laughter.
~ Andrew Mayne
That cold, dead look with something behind it like waiting
~ Robert Swindells
it was like staring at a whitewashed wall, but without all the emotion
~ Joe Abercrombie
I hope I haven't hurt your feelings,' he said. 'I don't have feelings, at least not the inconvenient ones.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.
~ John Kennedy Toole
His face gives nothing away; Valens plays his games on a dozen levels.
~ Elizabeth Bear
un etica che gli imponeva di offrire al mondo tiranno visi sempre inespressivi, rigidi e spenti.
~ John Williams
A room of expressionless faces staring blankly at my pain, so devoid of meaning there must be evil intent.
~ Sarah Kane
heavy, sullen girl with a face as blunt and expressionless as a knee
~ Scott Spencer
In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met did not see me . - Bad Blood
~ Arthur Rimbaud
but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.
~ Ayn Rand
ojos de viejo al que se le han muerto los sentimientos».
~ Graham Greene