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Quotes About Coldness

There was a strong sense of being alone, in wintry deadness. Nothing made sense in any direction.
~ Donna Tartt
There was a coldness, it seemed to me, beyond her years, in her smiling melancholy persistent refusal to afford me the least ray of light.
~ Unknown
He liked such sharpness, for there was nothing in him that had any blood you might spill.
~ Madeline Miller
Ignore me? Okay that's cool, just don't be mad when I ignore you.
~ Unknown
But it was not kindness he lacked; it was interest. His gaze passed over her as if she were not there.
~ Madeline Miller
This breakage within us is what makes us human and vulnerable. There is nothing more sinister than someone whose mind seems to be an absolute circle; there is a helpless coldness and a deadly certainty about such a presence.
~ John O'Donohue
They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.
~ John Steinbeck
Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry because they hated to be cruel, and some of them were cold because they had long ago found that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.
~ John Steinbeck
Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart.
~ Zooey Deschanel
Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder; the coldness increases, responsibility increases.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a strange, mineral scent in the air. As soon as we enter the compound surrounded by al the granite walls, the day turns colorless, shadowless. It's neither warm nor cold, though we shiver in our coats.
~ Unknown
Sometimes it is easier to feel the veins wilted and empty than to sense the coldness of blood in fear
~ Munia Khan
She was not unattractive until she focused her eyes on a human being, when their unblinking coldness gave the effect of the stare of an adder.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.
~ Mary Gordon
His voice, she realised, didn't sound like she remembered. It sounded emptier. A bit colder. Maybe it was tiredness. Maybe it was stress. Maybe it was beer. Maybe it was marriage.
~ Matt Haig
Vain is the effort to forget. Some day I shall be cold, I know, As is the eternal moonlit snow Of the high Alps, to which I go-- But ah, not yet, not yet! Vain is the agony of grief. 'Tis true, indeed, an iron knot Ties straitly up from mine thy lot, And were it snapt--thou lov'st me not! But is despair relief?
~ Matthew Arnold
I must have no pride whatsoever that I put up with your coldness
~ Meg Wolitzer
Man without compassion is the coldest thing ever in the universe!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
West is too materialist; East is too spiritual; North is too cold; South is too loose!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Esa frialdad cruel con que los hombres pagan la mayoría de las veces las manifestaciones demasiado ardientes de un amor puro.
~ Moliere
Do you truly feel nothing?" she whispered. "Are you without fractures?" "It's better this way." His eyes kissed her with frost. "The day I feel is the day I die.
~ Nalini Singh
purposes. The late Roderick Haig-Brown said, "Were it not for the strong, quick life of rivers, for their sparkle in the sunshine, for the cold grayness of them under rain and the feel of them about my legs as I set my feet hard down on rocks or sand or gravel, I should fish less often." Amen.
~ Unknown
The fervor of the homage which the democrat renders to humanity is comparable only to the coldness with which he disrespects the individual. The reactionary disdains man, without meeting an individual he scorns. Treating an inferior with respect and affection is the classic syndrome of the reactionary psychosis.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
La mia 'freddezza' lo turbava, ma lui non era un empatico e non capiva che per me il dolore era il male e la morte la fine del dolore. Per quel che mi riguardava, nessun verso della Bibbia poteva cambiare questa verità. Harry non capiva l'empatia, ma infondo perché avrebbe dovuto? La maggior parte della gente ne sapeva poco o niente.
~ Octavia E. Butler