Top 100 Quotes About Coldness
#1. 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
#2. The Nausea has stayed down there, in the yellow light. I am happy: this cold is so pure, this night so pure: am I myself not a wave of icy air? With neither blood, nor lymph, nor flesh. Flowing down this long canal towards the pallor down there. To be nothing but coldness.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#3. As for the coldness, I have never seen it like this. I mean, coldness that makes like it wants to kill you, like it's telling you, with its snow, that you should go back to where you came from.
NoViolet Bulawayo
#4. When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images and say, 'No, the brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It's really good at it if you let it.'
John Piper
#5. I looked and felt my head gradually grow cold. It was the sort of coldness you feel when you take too big a bite from an ice-cream cone or sip too greedily from an ice-cold drink. The kind of coldness that hurt - from the inside out.
Herman Koch
#6. The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
Samuel Alexander
#7. A song
Like a window of glass on a winter's day
That shuts in your warmth
And lets the coldness fall, free
Eesha Kumar
#8. My lodging is on the cold ground, And hard, very hard, is my fare, But that which grieves me more Is the coldness of my dear.
John Gay
#9. I wiped the drips from my face and shook my hands free of the coldness and told Wynn how good it tasted. Wynn drank, too, as a reminder to himself that he had been right. No other water on earth tastes quite like that of a mountain stream.
Janette Oke
#10. 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 about us. That's why we have to care about each other.
David Levithan
#11. The Word and prayer are inseparable. When one engages in prayer without the Word, it can lead to mysticism; when the Word is used without prayer, it can lead to legalism, intellectualism and coldness of heart.
Richard A. Burr
#12. I'm sure that all this, I mean other people's attitudes towards me, lies principally in some obscure intrinsic flaw in my own temperament. Perhaps I communicate a coldness that unwittingly obliges others to reflect back my own lack of feeling.
Fernando Pessoa
#13. They were snobs or idiots or both ... yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness.
Jennifer Egan
#14. Deep, deep down in the deepest Deeps. Isn't that a word now, Johnny, a real word, it says so much: the Deeps. There's all the coldness and darkness and deepness in the world in a word like that.
Ray Bradbury
#15. She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.
Cormac McCarthy
#16. This time, I invited it in. I felt the darkness tame my impetuous nature, allowing me to feed slowly on the hatred and control it. The coldness flowed through my veins and to the lengths of each limb. The icy darkness pooled in my chest and chilled my heart.
Leigh Goff
#18. He needed a story to go with her wildness, her coldness, her hollowness. The real story was that she'd had everything and hadn't deserved it, when she'd still wanted something else to sate a broken twisting emptiness that couldn't be filled.
Cole McCade
#19. The main thing, when a sword cuts into one's soul, is to keep a calm gaze, lose no blood, accept the coldness of the sword with the coldness of a stone. By means of the stab, after the stab, become invulnerable.
Franz Kafka
#20. (the difference between coldness and coolness was, after all, simply a matter of degree).
Tommy Wallach
#21. Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.
Camille Paglia
#22. the kind of person who in one moment could guess, with breathtaking coldness, at the innermost sorrow in your heart, and in the next moment turn and, with a cheery wave of farewell, march blithely through a plate-glass window, requiring twenty-two stitches in his cheek.
Michael Chabon
#23. Sorrow on another's face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#24. Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart.
Zooey Deschanel
#25. Your coldness serves to emphasize my own inadequacy, and makes me feel that the best solution might be to expire.
Murasaki Shikibu
#26. I'm falling in love with you. As the words left his mouth, his lips pressed to mine, giving me the most intense and explosive kiss I had ever had. With the coldness of his lips and the warmth of his tongue beneath mine I saw fireworks and felt them through every part of my body.
Magan Vernon
#27. Let a bright light shine in and melt the coldness in your heart. That's what being tough is all about.
Haruki Murakami
#28. People whose voices were filled with sarcasm, hostility, coldness, and arrogance are often people who thinks that they are free from the smallest of sin at all.
The Eldest
#29. She felt the pitiful inadequacy of this, and understood, with a sense of despair, that in her inability to express herself she must give him an impression of coldness and reluctance; but she could not help it.
Edith Wharton
#30. Nothing is more interesting than repressed emotion. The appearance of sardonic coldness and stoicism which has deceived you is but a hollow mockery; beneath it I secrete a maelstrom of impassioned feeling and a mausoleum of blighted hopes.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#31. She hated his need to always win and he hated her coldness during their arguments.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#32. 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
#33. And what's care?
What's coldness?
Why you are so foolish of your freedom?
...
Merely an illusion... programmed.....
Deyth Banger
#34. The sadness is under the thoughts. It's like when you're on a camping trip, and it's really cold, and you put on extra socks and an extra sweater, but you still can't get warm, because the coldness is in your bones.
Brandon Stanton
#35. Of late, she had felt coldness in herself, and though she feared it, she loved it too, for it made her strong.
Catherynne M Valente
#36. Cherish every season of life; for without coldness, there is no comfort in warmth, and without darker days, there is no joy in light.
Wes Fesler
#37. Teachers see coldness in the world and light fires in the minds of their students, hoping for a warm summer. Sadly, some cannot bear the flame, some turn away from the heat, and some twist the fire to burn.
Lance Conrad
#38. Coldness settles again in my stomach. I do not want a nice Hmong girl. I want a nice Egyptian boy who teaches me about colors and makes me appreciate poetry. I want the nice Egyptian boy who stops in the middle of the day to say Thank you, God. For everything.
Rose Christo
#39. Spring can still be felt
even if you lay under the bed
Frozen heart can melt
in coldness when wintry love misled
Munia Khan
#40. Sometimes it is easier to feel the veins wilted and empty than to sense the coldness of blood in fear
Munia Khan
#41. 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 acknowledge that they are sad.
Mary Gordon
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Seek the coldness of the moon and ye shall find the heat of the sun.
C. G. Jung
#45. A man like Dmitry was never irate. His coldness was only reflected in the manner in which he destroyed.
Latrivia S. Nelson
#46. There's too much coldness in the world," I told her. "If people would only talk things out together it would help.
Charles Bukowski
#47. If we but paused for a moment to consider attentively what takes place in this Sacrament, I am sure that the thought of Christ's love for us would transform the coldness of our hearts into a fire of love and gratitude.
Angela Of Foligno
#48. I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.
Anais Nin
#49. Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.
Richard Harris Barham
#50. Coldness in everything. It comes from a long way off; it gets into everything. One must get out of the way before it reaches the core. If it does that, one won't feel even the coldness any more. Do you see what I mean?
Christa Wolf
#51. I could never, I knew then, lose myself "in love." Margery had accused me of coldness, and she was right, but she was also wrong: For me, for always, the paramount organ of passion was the mind. Unnatural, unbalanced, perhaps, but it was true: Without intellect, there could be no love.
Laurie R. King
#52. 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
#53. At the end of an evening, her women friends would hug her, or a friend's husband might slip his arm around her waist to kiss her, just a little too suggestively, and the coldness in her would respond, I don't give a damn if I ever see any of you again.
Jennifer Egan
#54. Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection and coldness, I deprived myself of the pure delight of a fresh, childish instinct for the absurd purpose of trying to resemble grown-up people.
Leo Tolstoy
#55. Coldness went marching up his arms like the feet of evil fairies.
Stephen King
#56. She had been warned away from it her entire life, for its depth came quickly, its coldness was fierce, and the Kelpie lay in wait.
Sara Gruen
#57. She was not unattractive until she focused her eyes on a human being, when their unblinking coldness gave the effect of the stare of an adder.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#58. Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else,
coldness, or weakness, or viciousness,
but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!
Margaret Deland
#59. A coldness, nearly tangible due to its extreme weight, was perceptible the instant I entered the room.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#60. For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of so many human emotions and sentiments and desires. Sexual neutrality was the essence of coldness in an individual. It was a great and wonderful thing to be born with.
Ian Fleming
#61. And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing ... this didn't change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea ...
Bret Easton Ellis
#62. 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
#63. Coldness as a defense for the heart was something Saetan understood all too well.
Anne Bishop
#64. I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.
Thomas Dolby
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. And then there was the way you cast your gaze,
A coldness so chilling that it could cause a fire.
Sreesha Divakaran
#68. She seemed to have apprehended all of the composer's coldness and none of his poetry.
Kate Chopin
#69. No one was in better position than I to know how easily shyness gets misread for arrogance or coldness or indifference.
Josh Lanyon
#70. Judenhass is endlessly disturbing, often unpleasant and incessantly horrifying in its stark coldness. The quotes should never be forgotten or made light of. It is why all people of good will say, 'Never again.'
Marv Wolfman
#71. 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
#72. What children, in fact all of us at any age, find frightening is unreliability and emotional coldness. The idea that you can't affect someone, that you can't see where they're coming from and can change tact at any moment.
Tilda Swinton
#73. Tastee-Freeze was a sort of frozen custard. It gave all the pleasure that ice cream could give, without the stiffness and bitter coldness of ice cream.
Kurt Vonnegut
#74. So many leaves have fallen on my life. Some settled nicely to rest, but most fell, withered to bitter cold and drifted on. But, after all that, I would brave all the coldness of humanity again for the sight of a few more beautiful yellow leaves falling on Aspen, and the birds....
E.S. Lehman
#75. The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. -I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.
William Wordsworth
#76. All you who draw near to serve God in prayer, learn to be like Him, meek, humble, and true of heart; do not let there be any deceitfulness or duplicity nor coldness in your soul.
John Of Kronstadt
#77. 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
#78. There was a coldness in his unwavering ease, his constant and impersonal joy.
Emily Ruskovich
#79. Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.
Madame De Stael
#80. If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.
William Hazlitt
#81. You [God] are a fire that takes away the coldness, illuminates the mind with its light, and causes me to know your truth and I know that you are beauty and wisdom itself. The food of angels, you give yourself to man in this fire of your love
St. Catherine Of Siena
#82. I have a uniquely German capacity to vacillate between sentimentality and coldness.
Tina Fey
#83. What did I get in return? Coldness and emotional detachment. You are selfish and bitter and you wouldn't know a good thing if it fell out of the sky at your feet.
Tarryn Fisher
#84. She represents something about the corporate world that repel me, some deep coldness masked as relentless cheerfulness.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#85. If you allow coldness to engulf you before winter, season is helpless to help you.
Munia Khan
#86. The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.
Henry David Thoreau
#87. 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 one's own wretched heart is still aglow.
W.G. Sebald
#88. A strange coldness had settled upon Achamian, the monolithic selfishness of which only children and madmen are sometimes capable.
R. Scott Bakker
#89. Words ride on the energy of tone, its warmth or coldness; think of tone as the music of how words are expressed. You want this music to be soulful, whether you're giving sweet talk or tough love.
Judith Orloff
#90. His eyes sent coldness deep under my skin, where it spread like a stain. "Domenico,
Deborah Harkness
#91. There was no point in looking again. He [Cork] knew that. No point except to feed the coldness inside him. In a strange way, that was exactly what he wanted now. He wanted to feed himself to the cold until the cold had consumed him and he didn't care anymore.
William Kent Krueger
#92. 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
#93. There must be perfect towns where shadows were strong like buildings, towns secret without coldness, unaware without indifference.
Elizabeth Bowen
#94. I've heard believers speak of the coldness of science and the warmth of their faith. But my life has been warm too, and I have faith. Faith in love, and faith in the inherent beauty of a world that formed itself.
Alexandra Oliva
#95. Georgie was the good in me. Without her, I was sure I'd sink into the darkness of my mind and never emerge. She gave me the light to keep coming back. To crawl away from the evil I was surrounded by, the nightmares, the coldness, and she made me human again." Deck
Nashoda Rose
#96. Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the degree of self-control, not coldness that someone has.
Frederick Lenz
#97. Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul's husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul's range of delight.
Charles Spurgeon
#98. but that coldness stopped up the sentence in my mouth. "What
Zadie Smith
#99. 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
#100. We had allowed our eyes to meet only once- by accident as much as out of necessity- and not ten seconds had passed before the agony had become too great to bear and we had retreated into silence and coldness once more.
Kailin Gow
