Quotes about Insensitivity

they have ears, but cannot hear; they have noses, but cannot smell;

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

Apathy, the blunting of the emotions and the feeling that one could not care any more, were the symptoms arising during the second stage of the prisoner's psychological reactions, and which eventually made him insensitive to daily and hourly beatings. By means of this insensibility the prisoner soon surrounded himself with a very necessary protective shell.

Never forget that what may look like God's insensitivity is nothing of the sort, but rather an invitation to draw closer to Him through persistent praying in faith.

There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy condemns us to a corresponding stupidity.

Even in the miserable guilt we feel over our beastlike insensitivity, the glory of God shines. If God were not gloriously desirable, why would we feel sorrowful for not feasting fully on His beauty?

The best thing about being dead is that you don't know about it. It's like being stupid - it's only painful for others.

This inability may be grounded in an inborn dull-mindedness (in the literal sense), or in a general indifference developed in the course of a lifetime, or finally, in an insensitivity to certain impressions as a result of repeatedly ignoring them.

they have ears, but cannot hear