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Quotes About Coldness

Affectation, or coldness, or stupid, coarse-minded misapprehension of one's meaning are the usual rewards of candour.
~ bronte charlotte iii
his heart made of stone.
~ Iain Lawrence
For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of so many human emotions and sentiments and desires. Sexual neutrality was the essence of coldness in an individual. It was a great and wonderful thing to be born with.
~ Ian Fleming
He seemed to me a fascinating mass of contradictions. His calm nature spoke to me of an inner strength, yet at times he was vulnerable and afraid. He learned to fight, and then I saw in him a mindless savagery that seemed at odds with his innate nobility. I love, he was passionate and demanding, while also possessing the capacity for an isolating coldness.
~ Storm Constantine
Do you want me, Rufus?" Khaster asked coldly. "If so, forget it. You needn't bother showing concern for my well-being.
~ Storm Constantine
He couldn't imagine anyone less attractive than Leeth; her ugliness was on the inside, something damp and cold and dark.
~ Storm Constantine
Leeth herself had no particular interest in Fineas Rigg. She accepted he was attractive in a rakish sort of way, but she disliked the aura of cold callousness that seemed to surround him.
~ Storm Constantine
And then there was the way you cast your gaze, A coldness so chilling that it could cause a fire.
~ Sreesha Divakaran
What did I get in return? Coldness and emotional detachment. You are selfish and bitter and you wouldn't know a good thing if it fell out of the sky at your feet.
~ Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist
She cries cuz shes lost and she doesn't even know what she wants. Her eyes grow cold as she begs the world to just let her go.lines from Love Vs Destiny...
~ Atul Purohit
You'll freeze out here," he said. What did he know? I was already a sheet of ice, a frozen branch, a twig. I could freeze in my own house, if I wanted to. The man's eyes darted down the road. I was an icy slip of nothing. I was invincible.
~ Monica Drake
They would have devoured my family and picked their teeth with the bones, and never been sorry at all. Better to be turned to ice by the Staryk, who didn't pretend to be a neighbor.
~ Naomi Novik
I remembered Sarkan in his tower, plucking girls out of the valley, and his coldness when I'd first come, as though he couldn't remember how to think and feel like an ordinary person.
~ Naomi Novik
Envious, cold, and lonely. The perfect ingredients for a nice homemade bitter pie.
~ Cecelia Ahern
I don't like having feelings, Eric said coldly, and he left.
~ Charlaine Harris
But even those five-and-forty minutes were too long, the bored me --and boredom is the coldest thing in the world.
~ Thomas Mann
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart; eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. And, with those eyes, those interior eyes, open upon that coldness, I lay half asleep and looked at the visitor, death.
~ Thomas Merton
The kind of cold that comes when the heart gives up on itself and abandons hope, a cold no fire on on earth could ever warm.
~ Cameron Dokey
He walked towards them with all the kindness and goodwill he was capable of, but all he felt in their presence was coldness and disgust, not a single glimmer of love, nothing of that divine feeling which even the most miserable of sinners awoke in him when begging for forgiveness. There was more humility in bragging atheists, in hardened blasphemers, than in the eyes and words of these children. Their superficial obedience was terrifying
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.
~ Iris Murdoch
Your coldness has ruined my life. All right, you didn't mean it, all right I was a schoolgirl, but you could have been kinder to someone who said they loved you, you could have been gentle and grateful.
~ Iris Murdoch
She had never been filled with her love like a calm brimming vessel. She had rather suffered it, as a tree might suffer a cold wind, and the image of a coldness was somehow mingled with her memories of marital love.
~ Iris Murdoch
Riose laughed suddenly. He foresaw that? Then he foresaw wrong, my good scientist. I suppose you call yourself that. Why, the Empire is more powerful now than it has been in a millennium. Your old eyes are blinded by the cold bleakness of the border. Come to the inner worlds some day; come to the warmth and the wealth of the center.
~ Isaac Asimov
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,
~ Susan Glaspell