Cold Hearted Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old cold hearted quotes, cold hearted sayings, and cold hearted proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone. Emmanuel Jal
He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed Jane Austen
I shut myself off to make life bearable. I'm like a damn machine sometimes. Unfeeling. Uncaring. Emotionless. Monica Murphy
No matter how cold this world gets, please don't lose touch of morality and allow it to turn your heart cold. Edmond Mbiaka
I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful when rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and cold hearted than you are now. Sara Teasdale
Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling. Mason Cooley
I've learned the best way to prevent your heart from getting broken, is to act like you don't have one. Nishan Panwar
Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world. DH Lawrence
It's hard for me to characterise myself. I think I'm balanced. Some people might say I'm cold-hearted. Beny Steinmetz
Nobody should have to choose between a cold heart and a dead heart. Nenia Campbell
Sometimes I wish I would just disappear into thin air, leave the pain and the misery of this cold hearted world,I wonder who would miss me if anyone would even show a little sympathy to my family, probably no one I was just a little no one anyways. kashmir foley
There comes a time where you must become cold and separate the ones who are tearing you down. Travis Martin
You have to have a somewhat cold heart to be a writer. Susanna Kaysen
She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself. Emile Zola
I'm almost never serious, and I'm always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I'm like a collection of paradoxes. Ferdinand de Saussure
There was a kind of cold-hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them; and they sympathized with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanor, and a general want of understanding. Jane Austen
We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions. Brené Brown
A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick. Brené Brown
How could you be so cold as a winter wind when it breezes yo'. Kanye West
There's been an accident, they said, / 'Your servant's cut in half; he's dead!'/ 'Indeed.' said Mr. Jones, 'and please, / send me the half that's got my keys.' Harry Graham
Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. Martin Luther King
The attack of the dam was a callous and inhuman act of destruction. The Hunger Games; Mockingjay
We hope that, after this callous confession, Scotland yard will now take action. Punch (or the London Charivari)
Romney lost in part because he allowed his campaign and personality to be defined as extreme and callous. Justin Green
She was so callous that she didn't shed a tear when her husband died. Mary Embree
Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow, whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle, is your grandest of levelers. —The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic. Bulwer
Without dark clouds in our lives, we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain. Billy Graham
How do I get there?? / In the midst of a moral wilderness. / Where backbiting is permitted.. / and callous thinking is okayed... / The harder I pray, The stronger the kick to the face.. / Loving god is seen as a weakness. / a vulnerability at best. Tania Thonpson-Spencer
trust me on this one cause I ain't done / all of life isn't necessarily simple and fun / we got cold hearted people living in the middle playing second fiddle. Mario William Vitale
i know your nights are cold now / you so numb that you can't even feel / what is to it to let it go waste / counting back all of those years/tomorrow they seem to all disappear. Danny Morales
You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman! Thomas Hardy
Spring can still be felt / even if you lay under the bed / Frozen heart can melt / in coldness when wintry love misled. Munia Khan
A cold heart is its own worst punishment. Frank McAdam
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything. Billy Graham
I’m a cold-hearted bastard. I’m insular, I'm jaded, a workaholic, I'm ruthless and I'm self-serving. I don’t do forever, I rarely even do “I'll call you tomorrow”. And just because I'm here now it does not mean if you ask me to stay I will. Ally Blake
A person with a cold heart can only show their love by being cold. Pure DragonWolf
One who has a deaden conscience can never live within the confinements of the law. Drexel Deal
Cold hearts don't bleed. Still they pray for eternity, never seeing tomorrow. Ja Rule
Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves. Lin Yutang
I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in place, and it will not fall. Michael Ondaatje
The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own. – Thomas Campbell Thomas Campbell
It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism. Vance Havner
The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers. Dennis Prager
Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Jane Austen