Quotes about insensitivity

It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; The tear may be forgotten -- but the hurt stays in the heart.

— Ella Higginson

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.

— Herman Melville

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.

— Orson Welles