Best Insensibility Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die.”

Death Work Dying Time Management Laziness Dead Initiative Procrastination Die Sloth Michael Bassey Johnson Decadence Procrastinating Procrastinate Insensibility Postpone Dawdle Dilly Dallying

Author:Michael Bassey Johnson

“Man only can be aware of the insensibility of man towards a new gown.”

Man Gown Insensibility

Book:Northanger abbey

Source: Northanger abbey

“I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.”

People Fear Cases Fire Destruction Inner Peace Forests Burning Lazy Permit Optimist Unyielding Woods And Forests Insensibility

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

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

Mind Beautiful Suffering Beauty Greatness Bears Gratitude Optimism Cheer Calamity Cheerfulness Pain And Suffering World Suffering Reduce Stress Suffering And Pain Suffering Pain Insensibility

Author:Aristotle

“Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.”

People World Imagination Empathy Dues Realization Hardness Insensibility

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.”

Firsts Littles Love Is Effort Grief Frightened Recalls Anguish Domain Intervals Timidity Callousness Keenness Insensibility

Author:George Eliot

“Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.”

Men Want Reason Animal Grief Virtue Foolish Irrational Consolation Insensibility

Book:Enchiridion

Source: Enchiridion

“There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an utter insensibility of what becomes of the fortunes of their fellow-creatures, as if they were not partakers of the same nature, or had no lot or connection at all with the species.”

Ifs Matter Creatures Connections Fellows Fortune Species Selfishness Temper Habitual Insensibility

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author

“Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.”

Men Soul Pain Causes Greatness Offers Activity Adversity Shining Endure Generosity Bliss Crush Misfortunes Reverse Nevertheless Mars Severe Nobility Hindrance Owing Insensibility

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war.”

Feels Wells War Suffering Compassion Sea Burden I Realized Combat Runners Abyss Rail Suffering Of Others Insensibility

Author:Eugene B. Sledge

“[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.”

Christianity Cynicism Stoicism Stoic Cynic Nastiness Insensibility

Book:Alciphron: or, The minute philosopher. 1732. Siris. 1744

Source: Alciphron: or, The minute philosopher. 1732. Siris. 1744

“Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold.”

Men War Running Fear Cold Cold War Veins Insensibility

Book:The Poems of Wilfred Owen

Source: The Poems of Wilfred Owen

“As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.”

Hands Fate Tears Sorrow Laughter Moved Foolish Excess Mourn Reproach Inexorable Insensibility

Author:Seneca the Younger

“White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.”

Men Should White Moral Red Torture White Man Torment Fortitude Exhibits Insensibility

Author:Theophile Gautier

“The primordial blessing, 'increase and multiply', has suddenly become a hemorrhage of terror. We are numbered in billions, and massed together, marshalled, numbered, marched here and there, taxed, drilled, armed, worked to the point of insensibility, dazed by information, drugged by entertainment, surfeited with everything, nauseated with the human race and with ourselves, nauseated with life.”

Humans Together Race Information Blessing Increase Terror Entertainment Billions Human Race Here And There Dazed Insensibility

Book:Raids on the Unspeakable

Source: Raids on the Unspeakable

“Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for one year or two, but for several hundred years against aggression; that endured spoliations, famines, massacres in endless succession; that was clubbed many times into insensibility, but that each time on returning [to] consciousness took up the fight anew; a small nation that could never be got to accept defeat and has never surrendered her soul?”

“To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.”

Trying Humans Happiness Highest Difficulty Strive Inner Peace Conquer Felicity Insensibility

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken.”

Mean Long States Faces Tears Solitude Equal Accounts Wet Forsaken Insensibility

Book:Journey to the Interior of the Earth

Source: Journey to the Interior of the Earth

“And somewhere in that crimson-colored never-never land where i pirouetted madly, in a wild and crazy effort to exhaust myself into insensibility, i saw that man, shadowy and distant, half-hidden behind towering white columns that rose clear up to a purple sky. In a passionate pas de deux he danced with me, forever apart, no matter how hard i sought to draw nearer and leap into his arms, where i could feel them protective about me, supporting me ... and with him i'd find, at last, a safe place to live and love.”

Source: Flowers in the Attic

“[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty.”

Mind Doe Stills Action Suffering Humanity Grief Moral Psychology Fate Tears Duty Ethics Resources Busy Distress Participation Inclination Sympathetic Clouded Insensibility

Author:Immanuel Kant

“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.”

Men Earth Passion Darkness Mankind Creation Evolution Prepared Spread Stability Be Prepared Veils Perishing Insensibility Creation Of Man

Book:Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation

Source: Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation

“Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure”

Kind Moving All Kinds Occasions Displeasure All Occasions Insensibility

Book:Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

“Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.”

World States Life Is Sleep Animal Existence Late Philosopher Empires Vegetables Intervals Insensibility

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler of existence; ad if he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction to insensibility.”

Source: Murphy's essay. The rambler. The adventurer. The idler. Rasselas. Tales of the imagination. Letters. Irene. Miscellaneous poems

“Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.”

Too Much Crime Unhappiness Sensibility Insensibility

Author:Charles Maurice de Talleyrand