Charles Dickens Quotes

I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me.

Millions of people have decided not to be sensitive. They have grown thick skins around themselves just to avoid being hurt by anybody. But it is at great cost. Nobody can hurt them, but nobody can make them happy either.

If only my heart were stone.

The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.

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

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.

Those people that have hardened to rejection or hardened to life in general, it's pretty hard to feel them. You know, to look at their eyes on screen and feel them. I guess that's specifically talking about actors, but I think that's probably [true] in general. You want to keep your skin thin.

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

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

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

In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.

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

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't want you to feel sorry for me.

I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.

I don't cry about anything.

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

It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter.

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.

Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.