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Big Books of 2026

Unfeeling Quotes

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“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
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Gore Vidal
“I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.”
― Gore Vidal
tags: appearance, cold, icy, unfeeling, unloving
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Miranda July
“Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You
tags: depersonalization, nothingness, unfeeling
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Julie Kagawa
“Better to feel nothing, to be numb, than to lose control. It's the only way I know to deal with it.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Forever Song
tags: dealing-with-it, numb, unfeeling
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Anthony Liccione
“We are rich in hearts, but poor with love.”
― Anthony Liccione
tags: hate, heartless, hearts, icy, lack, little, love, much, passionless, plenty, poor, rich, unfeeling, unloving
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Sigmund Freud
“Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny.”
― Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
tags: dark, destiny, unfeeling, unloving
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Ciara Smyth
“I dug deep down into my empathy store and found a dried-up old raisin.”
― Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem
tags: humor, unfeeling
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Holly Black
“It would be better to disconnect from everything, to float free from my body, to be nothing in an endless night of nothing.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir
tags: disconnect, emotionless, endless-night, float-free, holly-black, nothing, suren, the-stolen-heir, unfeeling, wren
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Michael Bassey Johnson
“Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
tags: attention, banal, boring, boring-book, carnal, cruel, cruelty, disease, dog, ego, egoism, egoist, egotist, epidemic, humilation, impolite, impoliteness, improper, insult, insults, lack-of-respect, lackadaisical, lazarus, madness, maltreatment, michael-bassey-johnson, mistake, popularity, pride, readers, rigid, shallow, stupidity, unfeeling, unpopularity, vanity, weird, writers, writing
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“You ever get so disappointed in somebody that it doesn't even hurt? You don't feel anything at all.
It's just like 'That's how it is, huh?”
― Kalen Dion
tags: apathetic, disappointed, hurt, numb, sad, uncaring, unfeeling
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William Faulkner
“So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself”; and we said it would be the best thing.”
― William Faulkner , A Rose for Emily
tags: acceptance, indifference, suicidal-thoughts, unfeeling
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Anna Freeman
“Granville did not come to enquire after me, as I had known he would not. I had always considered him made awkward by painful emotion, but now I considered that perhaps hew as only unfeeling.”
― Anna Freeman, The Fair Fight
tags: awkwardness, charlotte, disgrace, emotion, granville-dryer, health, romance, the-fair-fight, unfeeling
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Iris Murdoch
“Bereavement is my occupation and it absorbs me completely. You want me to touch you, to look at you with sympathy. I cannot.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
tags: bereavement, closed-off, grief, impossibility, iris-murdoch, obsession, unfeeling
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Henry James
“A great many people give me the impression of never having for a moment felt anything.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
tags: henry-james, the-portrait-of-a-lady, unfeeling
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Sarah J. Maas
“I stopped being able to feel a great many things as we killed and killed...”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin
tags: a-court-of-wings-and-ruin, battle, feeling, feyre, feyre-archeron, killed, numb, sarah-j-maas, unfeeling, war
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“You were hurt, but you don't hate them.

It only hurts this bad because you love them.
It hurts because you know you never would have treated them how they have treated you.”
― Morgan Richard Olivier
tags: apathetic, harm, hate, hurt, love, remorseless, uncaring, unfeeling
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Daphne du Maurier
“You know, I think she's terribly attractive, but when you dance with her she makes you feel she doesn't want you. It's as if she were tremendously alive and you were a piece of wood. And that's all wrong, because she obviously must hate pieces of wood - shes has such hot eyes.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Julius
tags: femme-fatale, unfeeling
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Daphne du Maurier
“Because I wouldn't lie to you,' she said. 'If I ever want anyone, I'll tell you. As it happens, I've never felt like wanting anyone up to date.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Julius
tags: aromantic, growing-up, unfeeling
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Michael Bassey Johnson
“70% of schoolteachers teach only in their spare time, or when they are in the mood.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions
tags: african-teachers, bad-teachers, bad-teaching, education-system, free-time, leisure, nonchalance, school-system, teaching-quotes, unfeeling
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Michael Bassey Johnson
“Let not the daily and unending horrors of this world blind you to the loving human that you ought to be.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Burn Like Fire
tags: blinded, conflicts, enmity, horrors, inharmony, inhumanity, new-normal, news, rivalry, unfeeling
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“I could never imagine them weeping and hollering and fainting, because I knew only black folk did that. Surely we were the only ones to feel the pain deep down in our marrow so that it had to come forth, spewing up in moans and groans and chants, till we felt better. I wondered how they kept their pain all twisted and knotted up inside, like a corked bottle.”
― Nyani Nkrumah, Wade in the Water
tags: loss, mourning, pain, sorrow, unfeeling
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Michael Bassey Johnson
“Some people get hurt and get healed. Some get hurt and find it hard to exude even a mustard seed of emotion.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions
tags: deadened, desensitized, emotions, hardened, healed, hurting, pains, traumatic-experiences, troubled, unfeeling
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