Unfeeling Quotes

Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets.

I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot.

Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, 'I love you' but it means nothing more to him than if he said, 'I'll have a cup of coffee.'

CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

I'm very hard-nosed and cold-blooded and I can walk past a drowning man. If I have someplace else to go, well, tough s**t. I could do that. I can. Have. Sometimes, not because I was callous but had to do it.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.

I don't like sympathetic characters.

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

I've said before that I'm a remarkably unsentimental person.

How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.

Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.

but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.

My father was all brain and little heart.

Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.

I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in place, and it will not fall.

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

You know I love you more when you're cold and heartless.

These circumstances of Cruelty to these People render the Persons who exercise it disagreeable, nay odious to me. When a Set of People can sit down enjoying all the Luxuries of Life without feeling the least Sensation or Compunction for the Sufferings of those poor Wretches whose Lives are rendered Miserable and Constitutions destroyed for those Purposes, I must conclude them Obdurate, Selfish, and Unfeeling to the greatest Degree imaginable. At what an Expense of Life and Happiness do we eat Rice and Sugar! One thing more I must add, that their Diet is almost entirely on Rice and sweet Potatoes as they are allowed Meat but once a Year.

I don't really get scared. Want to know what else i don't feel?" PITY

It's easier to be cynical and edgy and tough rather than overly emotional.

I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat, I would cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no—sympathy—sentiment—nonsense.

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.