Unfeeling Quotes (17 quotes)

“Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.”
― Gore Vidal

tags: appearance, cold, icy, unfeeling, unloving

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“Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

tags: depersonalization, nothingness, unfeeling

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“Better to feel nothing, to be numb, than to lose control. It's the only way I know to deal with it.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Forever Song

tags: dealing-with-it, numb, unfeeling

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“We are rich in hearts, but poor with love.”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: hate, heartless, hearts, icy, lack, little, love, much, passionless, plenty, poor, rich, unfeeling, unloving

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“Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny.”
― Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

tags: dark, destiny, unfeeling, unloving

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“Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: attention, banal, boring, boring-book, carnal, cruel, cruelty, disease, dog, ego, egoism, egoist, egotist, epidemic, humilation, impolite, impoliteness, improper, insult, insults, lack-of-respect, lackadaisical, lazarus, madness, maltreatment, michael-bassey-johnson, mistake, popularity, pride, readers, rigid, shallow, stupidity, unfeeling, unpopularity, vanity, weird, writers, writing

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“I dug deep down into my empathy store and found a dried-up old raisin.”
― Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

tags: humor, unfeeling

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“It would be better to disconnect from everything, to float free from my body, to be nothing in an endless night of nothing.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

tags: disconnect, emotionless, endless-night, float-free, holly-black, nothing, suren, the-stolen-heir, unfeeling, wren

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“So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself”; and we said it would be the best thing.”
― William Faulkner , A Rose for Emily

tags: acceptance, indifference, suicidal-thoughts, unfeeling

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“Granville did not come to enquire after me, as I had known he would not. I had always considered him made awkward by painful emotion, but now I considered that perhaps hew as only unfeeling.”
― Anna Freeman, The Fair Fight

tags: awkwardness, charlotte, disgrace, emotion, granville-dryer, health, romance, the-fair-fight, unfeeling

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“Bereavement is my occupation and it absorbs me completely. You want me to touch you, to look at you with sympathy. I cannot.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

tags: bereavement, closed-off, grief, impossibility, iris-murdoch, obsession, unfeeling

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“A great many people give me the impression of never having for a moment felt anything.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

tags: henry-james, the-portrait-of-a-lady, unfeeling

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“You were hurt, but you don't hate them.

It only hurts this bad because you love them.
It hurts because you know you never would have treated them how they have treated you.”
― Morgan Richard Olivier

tags: apathetic, harm, hate, hurt, love, remorseless, uncaring, unfeeling

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“You ever get so disappointed in somebody that it doesn't even hurt? You don't feel anything at all.
It's just like 'That's how it is, huh?”
― Kalen Dion

tags: apathetic, disappointed, hurt, numb, sad, uncaring, unfeeling

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“70% of schoolteachers teach only in their spare time, or when they are in the mood.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

tags: african-teachers, bad-teachers, bad-teaching, education-system, free-time, leisure, nonchalance, school-system, teaching-quotes, unfeeling

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“I stopped being able to feel a great many things as we killed and killed...”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

tags: a-court-of-wings-and-ruin, battle, feeling, feyre, feyre-archeron, killed, numb, sarah-j-maas, unfeeling, war

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