Heartlessness Quotes:

For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.

- Lewis Thomas

topic: Greed, Heartlessness, Irresponsibility

We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.

- Georgia O'Keeffe

topic: Heart, Blind, Born, Heartlessness

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Charles Osborne, Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Novel for Serious People”, p.100, St. Martin's Press

topic: Cuffs, Muffins, Importance Of Being Earnest, Heartlessness

Those who are heartless, once cared too much.

- Frank Ocean

topic: Heartless, Too Much, Heartlessness, Caring Too Much, Sad Love

In life's journey, you will meet all sorts of characters. Always remember, never shed a tear for the heartless, corrupt or insensitive.

- Krystal

topic: Heart, Character, Journey, Heartlessness, Insensitive

Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2008). “Letters from the Earth: Easyread Edition”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Men, Two, Years, Inhumanity, Solomon

When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence can cause illegitimate violence, a terrible local heartlessness and cruelty that feeds on itself and goes on and on.

- Wendell Berry

source: Source: www.neh.gov

topic: Kentucky, Violence, Causes, Heartlessness

Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the heartlessness, the frivolity which is the necessary result of this false and debasing estimate of women, can only be fully understood by those who have mingled in the folly and wickedness of fashionable life.

- Sarah Moore Grimke

source: "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman" by Sarah Moore Grimke, Letter 8, 1837.

topic: Heart, Men, Mind, Frivolity, Heartlessness

We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.290

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Mean, Heartlessness, Golden Mean

I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler; and the money-man's heartlessness, but not the man. I love the swallow's flight, and I love the swallow; the urchin's gleam of tenderness, and the urchin.

- Olaf Stapledon

source: "An Olaf Stapledon Reader" by by Olaf Stapledon, Syracuse University Press, New York, (pp. 266-272), 1997.

topic: Cat, Men, Gleam, Heartlessness

We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe. We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.

- Ben Okri

topic: Ignorance, Simple, Parent, Rigour, Simple Beauty

How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Courier Corporation

topic: Heartless, Cuffs, Muffins, Make Out, Heartlessness

By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.

- Emily Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.372, Penguin

topic: Appreciate, Reputation, Curious, Heartlessness