Charles Dickens Quotes

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

People can be so heartless and dirty.

You ought to try being cruel to some people.

I can be a cruel person.

She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

Most of my fans are too sensitive. I’m a cruel and cold and hard person. I’ve been abused in every way you can imagine. Save your tears. I lost my sensitivity. You embarrass me when you cry.

Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.

Weep all the artful tears you like. You shall never make my hard heart the softer.

The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.

There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.

Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.

I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.

Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.

Nature is not human hearted.

In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

How can you not care?" "Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page.

My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.

She understood his eyes, colder than winter's heart. A man who knew he was dead and couldn't make himself care; you are spared that. Mashiara. His lost love.

...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.

After awhile, your, your cheap talk don't even cause me pain, so let your bullets fly like rain.

I don't really get scared. Want to know what else i don't feel?" PITY

What does it mean when your heart's already numb? You're a professional.

Once you've stopped loving someone breaking his or her heart's just an unpleasant chore you have to get behind you. My God, you really don't love me anymore, do you? No matter your decency the victim's incredulity's potentially hilarious. You manage not to laugh.

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.