Callous Quotes

“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

“If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Maybe it’s a whole lot less about focusing on the fact that we’re all victims and a whole lot more about the changing the fact that we’re all careless, as that is what victimized all of us in the first place.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Certainly she must surrender but she must offer resistance; an opponent too weak to win but not too weak to put up a struggle.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

“A tearless heart is a callous heart.”
― Jim George

“My calloused hands tell the story of my life. I’ve loved these fields more than a man can love anything outside his family. I’m a farmer. Engrave it on my headstone: Farmer.”
― Brenda Sutton Rose

“I have found that happiness is a defiant act of bravery in spite of a callous world.”
― Liz Newman

“I do appreciate you saving my toes from being severed." Instead of remorse an icy coolness dripped from her tone, a mockery of what he'd done.
The throbbing in his knee spread all through him like rage. He stepped into her space, the memory of betrayal vibrating through him, and leaned close to her ear. "They were the first toes I sucked." His tone was cruel, but he didn't care. "Letting them get severed under my watch would be callous, wouldn't it?"
She stepped away from him, face flaming, her scent flooding his brain. Her hair still smelled like it always had. As though her essence was wrapped up in it, clean and fiery like freshly bloomed roses. He hated how it reached inside him and dug up memories. But like everything else about her, even her scent had become colder. The fire almost snuffed out, even the vibrancy of roses too restrained to be real.
The full blast of her jet-black glare met his. "Since when is being callous a problem for you?"
It was Rico's turn to stiffen, but he had spent too much time in the spotlight to let it show.
What about chasing her around like a puppy had been callous? Or about begging her not to leave him?
Please, Ash. I'll do whatever you want to make myself worthy of you. Don't leave me.
How had he had so little self-respect?”
― Sonali Dev, Recipe for Persuasion

“Your callous ways mean that better roads await my journey.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“I had been so callous that almost nothing could break through to me. I was like a corpse, and the rebukes I received were like a defibrillator, shocking my heart and forcing it to return to some semblance of normalcy.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose