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31 Quotes About Being Cold Hearted

List of 31 Quotes About Being Cold Hearted:

#1 ”I’m a cold-hearted bastard. I’m insular, I’m jaded, a workaholic, I’m ruthless and I’m self-serving. I don’t do forever, I rarely even do “I’ll call you tomorrow”. And just because I’m here now it does not mean if you ask me to stay I will.” – Ally Blake

#2 ”Whatever the situation may be. Don’t ever be cold to someone you care about. Indifference and unanswerable questions hurt more than angry words.” – Unknown Author

#3 ”If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.” – Horace Traubel

#4 ”You have to have a somewhat cold heart to be a writer.” – Susanna Kaysen

#5 ”I’ve learned the best way to prevent your heart from getting broken, is to act like you don’t have one.” – Nishan Panwar

#6 ”I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful when rain bends down the bough; and I shall be more silent and cold-hearted than you are now.” – Sara Teasdale

#7 ”Nobody should have to choose between a cold heart and a dead heart.” – Nenia Campbell

#8 ”She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.” – Émile Zola

#9 “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

#10 ”The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.” – Thomas Campbell

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#11 ”Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.” – Sena Jeter Naslund

#12 ”I shut myself off to make life bearable. I’m like a damn machine sometimes. Unfeeling. Uncaring. Emotionless.” – Monica Murphy

#13 “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

#14 “Now, after so many years, I understand what the Coldness was and where it came from—this sense that everything is lost, and worthless, and meaningless.” – Lauren Oliver

#15 “To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.” – Marty Rubin

#16 ”A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don’t really feel anything for anyone.” – Emmanuel Jal

#17 “A man’s vanity is more fragile than you might think. It’s easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.” – Lisa Kleypas

#18 “Anger’s like a battery that leaks acid right out of me and it starts from the heart ’til it reaches my outer me.” – Criss Jami

#19 ”A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.” – Adam Sedgwick

#20 ”There comes a time where you must become cold and separate the ones who are tearing you down.” – Travis Martin

#21” It’s hard for me to characterise myself. I think I’m balanced. Some people might say I’m cold-hearted.” – Beny Steinmetz

#22 ”What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.” – Zane Grey

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#23 ”No matter how cold this world gets, please don’t lose touch of morality and allow it to turn your heart cold.” – Edmond Mbiaka

#24 ”He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.” – Jane Austen

#25 ”Good words cool more than cold water.” – John Ray

#26 ”Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.” – Mason Coole

#27 ”Men’s hearts are cold. They are indifferent.” – Mother Jones

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#28 ”Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.” – Graham Greene

#29 “A person with a cold heart can only show their love by being cold” – PureDragonWolf

#30 ”I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in place, and it will not fall.” – Michael Ondaatje

#31 “Nothing burns like the cold.” – George R.R. Martin

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