Coldness Quotes

• Men of cold passions have quick eyes.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Passion, Eye, Men

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.264, e-artnow

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• What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, People, Fancy

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

  Thomas Dolby

  People, Desperation, Desperate

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• A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fear, Winter, Wind

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• She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Finals, Gone

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.60, Pan Macmillan

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• Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Happiness, Sad

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• Every man has his secret sorrows.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sad, Depression, Being Happy

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• 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 the mask had become her self. If the longing inside her for kindness, for warmth, for compassion, was the last seed of hope for her, she didn't know how to nurture it or if it could live.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kindness, Compassion, Self

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• What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy.

  Bob Colacello

  Emotion, Intimacy, Meanness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.

  Steve Aylett

  Stars, Book, Sea

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• For many weeks after [my wife] died, I could not get used to the feeling of coldness and lifelessness on her side of the bed - and it was even worse when they took the body away and buried her.

  Jonathan Coe

  Wife, Feelings, Sides

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• Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Responsibility, Privilege, Underestimate

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.389, Penguin

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• I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as is apt to come between people of strong feelings.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Mother, Strong, Emotional

  Nathaniel Hawthorne “The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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 heart. And who can tell but Heaven, at last, May answer all my thousand prayers, And bid the future pay the past With joy for anguish, smiles for tears?

  Anne Bronte

  Prayer, Heart, Past

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.212, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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 shown a shred of compassion for sympathy or kindness without calculating how it would return to your advantage. You have tortured and killed without regret or hesitation; you have betrayed and intrigued and gloried in your treachery. You are a cess-pit of moral filth.

  Philip Pullman

  Kindness, Regret, Compassion

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of nonconviction. . . . It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirits, the pit at the center, and rising hope.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Life, Pain, Fall

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• 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 to the world.

  Lorrie Moore

  Numbness, Done, World

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Oct 29, 2012

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• The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Power helpeth our infirmity in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Life ends our deadness in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Wisdom delivers us from ignorance in this holy art ofprayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Fire delivers us from coldness in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Might comes to our aid in our weakness as we pray.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Art, Prayer, Ignorance

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• Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.

  Thomas Merton

  Selfish, Believe, Men

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• Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Powerful, Littles

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• What is most important when the time comes - and it always will - is to live your life with the coldness of a wolf.

  Mark Rowlands

  Live Your Life, Important

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• A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.

  John Lyly

  Sweet, Pain, Heart

  1588 Gallathea, act1, sc.2. The passage gently satirizes the conventions of love sonnets, and is characterized by the yoked opposites called Euphuisms, after Lyly's earlier work, a style later used by the metaphysical poets.

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• While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the marriage is marked by conflict and coldness. When one spouse is friendly and the other is unfriendly, the marriage is marked by selfishness and sadness. But when both spouses each make a deep, heartfelt covenant with God to continually seek to become a better friend, increasing love and laughter mark the marriage.

  Mark Driscoll

  Love, Laughter, Sadness

  Mark Driscoll, Grace Driscoll (2013). “Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together”, p.29, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Crush, Children, Order

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• The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.

  Ernest Gaines

  Heart, Artist, Blood

  Ernest J. Gaines, John Lowe (1995). “Conversations with Ernest Gaines”, p.21, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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