100 Cold Hearted Quotes to Embrace Your Fierce Side
Sometimes emotions run cold, and words can perfectly capture that icy feeling.
That’s why we’ve put together a collection of the best cold-hearted quotes for your next post.
And if you’re looking for bold and unapologetic sayings that speak volumes, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Our Favorite Cold Hearted Quotes
“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
“Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.” — Billy Graham
“A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don’t really feel anything for anyone.” — Emmanuel Jal
“Cold hearts don’t bleed. Still they pray for eternity, never seeing tomorrow.” — Ja Rule
“If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.” — Horace Traubel
“Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.” — Graham Greene
“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
“No one will ever know what ‘In Cold Blood’ took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.” — Truman Capote
“The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.” — Thomas Campbell
“Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.” — Morgan Freeman
“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
“Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.” — F. H. Bradley
“It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“If Bible Christianity is to survive the present world upheaval, we shall need to have a fresh revelation of the greatness and the beauty of Jesus…. He alone can raise our cold hearts to rapture and restore again the art of true worship.” — Aiden Wilson Tozer
“Just another cold, misty morning inviting, ‘want to go again?'” — Mary Anne Radmacher
“Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.” — Sena Jeter Naslund
“You have to have a somewhat cold heart to be a writer.” — Susanna Kaysen
“Good words cool more than cold water.” — John Ray
“Scalded cats fear even cold water.” — Thomas Fuller
“Embracing conflict can be a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and the re-engergizing of ourselves and others. Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.” — Billy Graham
“The Cold War isn’t thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn’t sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.” — Richard M. Nixon
“A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.” — Adam Sedgwick
“My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.” — James Joyce
“Man dies of cold, not of darkness.” — Miguel de Unamuno
“A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.” — Jules Renard
“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
“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
Cold-Hearted Sayings
“Emotions are the shackles of the weak.”
“Love is a game; play to win, not to lose.”
“People are merely stepping stones in the path of ambition.”
“Expect nothing, and you’ll never be disappointed.”
“The heart is a liability; guard it fiercely or cast it away.”
“Kindness is often mistaken for weakness.”
“True strength lies in the ability to walk away without looking back.”
“Broken trust is a lesson; learn it well and move on.”
“Happiness is a facade, masking the truth of loneliness.”
“Forgiveness is overrated; sometimes, it’s better to forget.”
“Compassion is a weakness best left unexpressed.”
“Promises are just words; actions speak the truth.”
“Loyalty is a luxury; choose practicality over sentiment.”
“Hope is a cruel joke played by fate.”
“Sometimes, the best response is to let silence do the talking.”
“People are like shadows; they vanish when you need them most.”
“Pain is temporary, but indifference is forever.”
“Trust is earned, not given; be stingy with it.”
“Life is a chess game; sacrifice is sometimes necessary.”
“The past is a ghost; let it haunt those who dwell on it.”
“Your worth is only as good as what you can provide.”
“Feelings are for the naive; I prefer facts.”
“Strength is found in solitude, not in relationships.”
“True happiness is a myth; embrace the void.”
“Cynicism is just realism in disguise.”
“The more you care, the more you risk getting hurt.”
“Don’t give your heart to those who can’t handle the weight.”
“Reality is cold; better to embrace it than fight it.”
“Regret is for the foolish; learn to move on.”
“The heart wants what it cannot have; let it be.”
