Insensibility Quotes

What a deal of grief, care, and other harmful excitement does a healthy dullness and insensibility avoid! - William Makepeace Thackeray

We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind. - John Ruskin

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. - Charles M. De Talleyrand

The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility. - William Thomas Green Morton

The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion. - Blaise Pascal

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. - Aristotle

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure. - Frances Burney

If it was not for the entail I should not mind it.' `What should not you mind?' `I should not mind anything at all.' `Let us be thankful that you are preserved from a state of such insensibility. - Jane Austen