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Quotes About Coldness

they knew by the stark silvery power that came from you, what everybody thinks is coldness and cunning, but was never anything but unwelcome strength.
~ Anne Rice
You're selfish and you're cold, and I'm tired of getting frostbite when I touch you. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Kit drew breath in an agony of anticipation, felt Mehiel's surrender in the coldness of his brands.
~ Elizabeth Bear
There must be perfect towns where shadows were strong like buildings, towns secret without coldness, unaware without indifference.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white, it's snow-white.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
Onni Rellonen skrittet med isnende kaldt hjerte mot løa, en gammel og grå bygning som ikke lenger kunne brukes til annet enn å gjøre slutt på livet.
~ Arto Paasilinna
La del agente secreto, como cualquier vida clandestina, requería talento, frialdad y aptitudes para la supervivencia. También capacidad de improvisación, saber adaptarse al entorno y facilidad para captar el conjunto por simples detalles.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images and say, 'No, the brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It's really good at it if you let it.'
~ John Piper
1957, coldly stating that they would not need her services
~ Sara Paretsky
Time passes cold and indifferent over us; it knows nothing of our joys or sorrows; it leads us with ice-cold hand deeper and deeper into the labyrinth.
~ Johann Ludwig Tieck
But why bother? So cold. A woman's life dismissed in three words.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
La castidad, en la que antaño veía una superstición que debía combatirse, le parecía ahora una de las caras de la serenidad: saboreaba ese frío conocimiento que uno tiene de los seres cuando ya no los desea.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Las personas que no sienten ninguna emoción sufren de frialdad emocional, de atrofia interior. De ellas no brota ni una brizna de vitalidad, y tampoco dinamismo alguno.
~ Anselm Grün
in that cold autistic dark.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.
~ George Orwell
I felt as if I walked inside a cold shadow, a shadow cast by bricks and mortar.
~ Sarah Monette
What happened was I hit the cold place inside my head, the place where I'd been when I killed people for a living, the place especially where I ended up when a job looked like it was going bad. I can't describe it so it makes sense. It's really cold and really clear and nothing in the world matters except not fucking up the job-in this case, getting my damn brother on board this ship because it was what he'd said he wanted.
~ Sarah Monette
I reached for Jack's hand. It was cold. But then, so was mine.
~ Sarah Zettel
and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.
~ Gillian Flynn
There's something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.
~ Gillian Flynn
There's something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold
~ Gillian Flynn
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
~ Graham Greene
want it, and that's why I'm going to Khaled and Idriss—because I don't feel sorry for any of it, and I don't regret a thing. I'm cold inside, Lin. I like people, and I like things, but I don't love any of them—not even myself—and I don't really care about them. And, you know, the strange thing is, I don't really wish that I did care.
~ Gregory David Roberts