Absolutely Quote by Mary Gordon

When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to…

— Anton Chekhov

My work is frequently described as cold, which is baffling, since it seems to me embarrassingly, shame-makingly, scandalously warm. I find my work filled…

— John Banville

Those who act the coldest are sometimes those who are most emotional deep inside, but have suffered so much that they have to act…

— Sarah Moores

Every man has his secret sadness and sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is…

— Anonymous

In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for…

— Roger Rosenblatt

Every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.

— Anonymous

Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.

— Jean Rhys

Often times we call a man [or woman] cold when he [or she] is only sad.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Dinginess is death to a writer. Filth, discomfort, hunger, cold, trauma and drama, don't matter a bit.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor…

— E. B. White

It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.

— George Eliot