Cold And Distant Quotes

#1. And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant

J.M. Coetzee

#2. She had always loved the stars. But in the desert of winter it was impossible to forget that they were cold, and distant, and did not care.

Seth Dickinson

#3. or perhaps because of, her natural aloofness and her ability to withdraw and view things without emotion. The fact that this extended to her own life, leaving her appearing cold and distant, was beside the point.

Rachel Abbott

#4. The stars blazed like the love of God, cold and distant.

Roger Zelazny

#5. To my mind, that's a bigger and brighter idea than sitting at a lonely center surrounded by cold and distant astral lamps.

David Eagleman

#6. The clock shows 3 p.m., the two hands cold and distant. They're pretending to be noncommittal, but I know they're not on my side.

Haruki Murakami

#7. Being a star is depressing.
It twinkles but is distant and cold.

I'd rather be the moon,
Shine in your glory and go around you forever!

Avinash Matta

#8. It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

Sherwood Anderson

#9. Lilith: Oh, but your heart grows cold. A north wind blows and carries down the distant ... Rose?
The Doctor: Oooh, big mistake! Because that name keeps me fighting!

Gareth Roberts

#10. What do you think you're here to do?'
She paused a moment, gazing out the rattling side window at the distant mountains.
'To help people along the way, ' she said, 'to bring them hot coffee when they're cold and scared to death and hangin' on for dear life.

Stanley Gordon West

#11. In a way, the very success which the Boss laid on Tiny was his revenge on Tiny, for every time the Boss put his meditative, sleepy, distant gaze on Tiny, Tiny would know, with a cold clutch at his fat heart, that if the Boss should crook a finger there wouldn't be anything but the whiff of smoke.

Robert Penn Warren

#12. Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Edward Gibbon

#13. I've been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I'm nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want to protect your private life, your inner feelings?

Grace Kelly

#14. At times she's thought of as an ice princess but ice, when exposed to warmth, melts.

Donna Lynn Hope

#15. I left the apartment without even bothering to close the door behind me. Once outside, I faced a world of buildings and faces that seemed strange and distant. I started to walk aimlessly, oblivious to the cold and the rain-filled wind that was starting to lash the town with the breath of a curse.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#16. The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind a distant hill, the noble sun rose up, driving the mists in phantom shapes before it, and clearing the earth of their ghostly forms till darkness came again.

Charles Dickens

#17. I eat cold eels and think distant thoughts.

Jack Johnson

#18. Whatever beauty we behold, the more it is distant, serene, and cold, the purer and more durable it is. It is better to warm ourselves with ice than with fire.

Henry David Thoreau

#19. When eyes have died in its gaze, know the heart had died in its blaze.

Anthony Liccione

#20. The evening was cold and tempestuous, the rain poured in torrents, and the distant thunders rolled with tremendous noise round the adjacent mountains, whilst the pale lightning added horrors to the scene.

Eliza Parsons

#21. There's a bitter cold in me, a cold which comes from a distant land. And nothing ever really makes it warm. You knew of this cold. You tried a thousand times to melt it, and transform it to something more brilliant, but you never succeeded.

Anne Rice

#22. Beware the cute, hot guy who kind of reminds you of the parent you don't get along with: your cold, distant father who left when you were a kid or your hot-tempered mother whom you could never please.

Merrill Markoe

#23. You held on to him In that forsaken bed He's distant, cold - Nothing else could be said.

Dawn Lanuza

#24. I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.

Charlotte Rampling

#25. I sometimes doubt whether even the friends whose kind thoughts turned downwards me that evening from the distant South and West could realize how cheerful is the recollection of the Christmas spent in the solitude and cold of the desert.

Aurel Stein

#26. It was a large store and i did not like to go in it because its brightness was cold, like sunlight on distant ice.

Chaim Potok

#27. Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#28. This yearning for new and distant scenes, this craving for freedom, release, forgetfulness
they were he admitted to himself, an impulse towards flight, flight from the spot which was the daily theatre of a rigid, cold, and passionate service.

Thomas Mann

#29. It is said that I'm distant and cold. I'm just someone who's very shy. I'm not comfortable doing interviews because I have to talk about myself. To talk about yourself, you have to know yourself pretty well and I feel like there are still some shades in me that I don't know about.

Kristen Stewart

#30. She was like a star, always so distant. Even the light she shone on me was always cold.

Liu Cixin