We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom…

We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the…

— Ben Okri

To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born…

— Jerome Drayton

We always think, 'Well, for a person who's blind, it must be an amazing, joyful miracle if by some chance their sight is restored…

— Rosemary Mahoney

“Indeed he seemed to her sometimes made differently from other people, born blind, deaf, and dumb, to the ordinary things, but to the extraordinary…

— Virginia Woolf

Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.

— Lewis Thomas

“Every evil deed, every example of heartlessness in the world, stems directly from this false sense of “me” as distinct from everything else.”

— Henepola Gunaratana

We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I don't think I am heartless. Do you?' 'You have done too many foolish things during the last fortnight to be entitled to give…

— Oscar Wilde

By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.

— Emily Bronte

When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence can cause…

— Wendell Berry

I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler; and the…

— Olaf Stapledon

“You must know,’ said Estella, condescending to me as a beautiful and brilliant woman might, ‘that I have no heart—if that has anything to…

— Charles Dickens

“mnY reason of b"kup, but it hurts moRe when you don"t know evN a single-1. ”

— Sumit Ð choudhary c2

“The Eugenic optimism seems to partake generally of the nature of that dazzled and confused confidence, so common in private theatricals, that it will…

— G.K. Chesterton