Quotes About Indifference

And Professor Tongun, from Sudan, "Like a tree in the forest, America doesn't hear foreign suffering.

Personally, I could have cared less.

The ants Geiser recently observed under a dripping fir tree are not concerned with what anyone might know about them; nor were the dinosaurs, which died out before a human being set eyes on them. All the papers, whether on the wall or on the carpet, can go. Who cares about the Holocene? Nature needs no names. Geiser knows that. The rocks do not need his memory.

feelings bore me. is that a crime

He so routinely disparaged other people's importance that he didn't notice he was degrading me.

Can't do is like Don't Care. Neither of them have a home.

Care? He didn't care. He loved her.

callous to the kind, not to

Kill her for me, she said in that whiny little-girl voice. Diego took a step toward me, wearing an expression that told me he was only too happy to oblige his lady love. Oh, what? I said. I wasn't even scared. I didn't care anymore. The numbness in my heart had pretty much taken over my whole body. You always do what she tells you? You know, we have a word for that now. It's called being whipped.

everyone's too busy having a good time to care about anyone else. This sucks, Alex said sullenly. If someone murders you and you get revived and come back to wreak vengeance on your killers, they could at least have the decency to notice you.

I didn't really care much about anything, so I guess I felt fine.

What happened to your face? she asked. It fell on a fist. He shrugged. That happens a lot? Enough.

I was not. I was. I am not. I care not.

He does not listen for an answer, but yawns, his face opening lewdly upon regions compared with which nudity becomes a milliner's invention.

He watched her almost with indifference -for it was all in the past-and even the present was nothing to the pride of his memory.

The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest in everything. At first I thought high school would be fun but it's just dull. Everything's dull. Maybe it's because I'm growing up and life is becoming more blase.

I've been asleep and I don't know if it's the same day or week or year, but who the hell cares anyway?

Boys learn to cover up grief with anger; the more troubled the boy, the more intense the mask of indifference. Shutting down emotionally is the best defense when the longing for connection must be denied.

It was not the first time people had taken a good square look at Armaggedon and decided that they would prefer it to happen to somebody else. Ever since Noah built the Ark, the seductive notion that it is possible to opt out, to stand on the sidelines whilst global cataclysm passess you by, has exercised a strong pull.

RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds and properly dispose our listeners to a pain they have never dreamed of. The context of what can be known establishes that love and indifference are forms of language, but the wise addition of punctuation allows us to believe that there are other harms - the dash gives the reader the clear signal they are coming.

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

He hates you, but why should the falcon care about the sparrow's hate?

The other thing I like about our gods is that they are not obsessed with us. They have their own squabbles and love affairs and seem to ignore us much of the time, but the Christian god has nothing better to do than to make rules for us.

Peccato." The sculptor shrugged and drifted away. A minute later there was another fistfight, during