Quotes About Indifference

Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.

O, if my husband could only love me even a little and not seem to be perfectly indifferent to any sensation of that kind... O my poor aching heart when shall it rest its burden only on the Lord.

But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

There's no love lost between us.

If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love?

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

We are not especially 'interested in' animals. Neither of us had ever been inordinately fond of dogs, cats, or horses in the way that many people are. We didn't 'love' animals.

If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?

Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.

I used to fuck stuff up like that all the time. I didn't see the big deal.

Empecé a superar la tartamudez el día que dejó de importarme.

Pues...-se hizo la indiferente-,porque aún no he encontrado a mi chico, porque soy muy especial, porque soy muy difícil, porque no quiero tener novio por tenerlo, como si estar sola fuese malo, y por un montón de razones más, todas por el estilo. También es cierto que espero algo muy diferente, una persona que me entienda y me siga, que me acepte.

There are two ways of ridding ourselves of a thing which burdens us, casting it away or letting it fall. To cast away requires an effort of which we may not be capable, to let fall imposes no labour, is simpler, without peril, within reach of all. To cast away, again, implies a certain interest, a certain animation, even a certain fear; to let fall is absolute indifference, absolute contempt; believe me, use this method, and Satan will flee.

et, en effet, si le plus bel air du monde devient vulgaire, insupportable, dès que le public le fredonne, dès que les orgues s'en emparent, l'œuvre d'art qui ne demeure pas indifférente aux faux artistes, qui n'est point contestée par les sots, qui ne se contente pas de susciter l'enthousiasme de quelques-uns, devient, elle aussi, par cela même, pour les initiés, polluée, banale, presque repoussante.

Elle devenait en quelque sorte, la déité symbolique de l'indestructible Luxure, la déesse de l'immortelle Hystérie, la beauté maudite, élue entre toutes par la catalepsie qui lui raidit les chairs et lui durcit les muscles; la Bête monstrueuse, indifférente, irresponsable, insensible, empoisonnant, de même que l'Hélène antique, tout ce qui l'approche, tout ce qui la voit, tout ce qu'elle touche.

Indiferentes" ha llamado Ribot a los que viven sin que se advierta su existencia. La sociedad piensa y quiere por ellos. No tienen voz, sino eco. No hay líneas definidas ni en su propia sombra, que es, apenas, una penumbra.

tenía ya esa despreocupación, esa indescifrable indiferencia de los que se van a morir algunos meses después.

Sisa shut up the cabin and covered the few embers with ash so they wouldn't go out, as people do with their deepest feelings: cover them with life's ashes, which they call "indifference," so they don't go out completely as a result of day-to-day interaction with our peers.

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

Allora, prima della grande guerra, all'epoca in cui ebbero luogo i fatti di cui si narra in queste pagine, non era ancora indifferente se un uomo viveva o moriva. Quando qualcuno spariva dalla schiera terrestre non veniva subito rimpiazzato da un altro affinché il morto venisse dimenticato: restava un vuoto, e i testimoni vicini e lontani del declino ammutolivano alla vista di quel vuoto.

I am alone. My heart beats only for myself. The strikers mean nothing to me. I have nothing in common with the mob, nor with individuals. I am a cold person. In the war I did not feel I was part of my company. We all lay in the same mud and waited for the same death. But I could think only about my own life and death. I would step over corpses and it oftened saddened me that I could feel no pain.