Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes

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

They say that I'm very calculated and not very sensitive - that a regular, average person, there are many things that bother them, and I don't see or feel it.

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

If I see a baby, I don't feel anything. It's like Theresa May walking past a homeless person.

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

Pity those who don't feel anything at all

Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil

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

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

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

It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

I don't like sympathetic characters.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.

I have no human feelings.

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

I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.

A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world.

It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.

So what’s it like to live without emotions? (Geary) It’s hard. Imagine a world without taste. A world where you can see the colors and all, but you can’t feel it. A beautiful clear day can never choke you up. A child’s laughter doesn’t make you smile. You don’t look at a bunny and think ‘how cute.’ You feel absolutely nothing. It’s like being wrapped in thick cotton all the time. (Arik)

I'm a person with virtually no feelings.

CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.