Coldness Quotes

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A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference. — Lisa Kleypas
I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that… — W G Sebald
Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love have I for Miss Ingram? None: and… — Charlotte Bronte
She thought of the hardness and the coldness she had cultivated over those years and wondered if they were the mask she wore or if… — Megan Whalen Turner
They were snobs or idiots or both...yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness. — Jennifer Egan
She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift. — Cormac McCarthy
Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years… — Philip Pullman
Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do… — Lorrie Moore
Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my… — Anne Bronte
If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care… — David Levithan
It's the rule of the wilds. You must be bigger, and stronger, and tougher. A coldness radiates through me, a solid wall that is growing,… — Lauren Oliver
Now, after so many years, I understand what the Coldness was and where it came fromâ€”this sense that everything is lost, and worthless, and meaningless. — Lauren Oliver
There is a coldness to the Clave, it is true. We are dust and shadows. But you are like the heroes of ancient times, like… — Cassandra Clare
There is so much coldness because we do not dare to be as cordial as we are. — Albert Schweitzer
You know, that kind of coldness, you know. And I think, yeah, I think that definitely helped. The female characters on the show, you can… — Matt Robinson
I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to… — Mary Gordon
Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder; the coldness increases, responsibility increases. — Friedrich Nietzsche
And I return to the coldness of this defying human nature, to the impertinence with which the losers of the Sacred Self clime to our… — Sorin Cerin
Only this way the human life will escape its own burden, its own image, its own Destiny, the vanity, the deceit and the absurd, the… — Sorin Cerin
And I return to the coldness of this defying human nature, to the impertinence with which the losers of the Sacred Self clime to our… — Sorin Cerin

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