Quotes About Indifference

The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.

She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn't care.

An SEP,' he said, 'is something that we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem. That's what SEP means. Somebody Else's Problem. The brain just edits it out, it's like a blind spot. If you look at it directly you won't see it unless you know precisely what it is. Your only hope is to catch it by surprise out of the corner of your eye.

But unless we determine to take action,' said the old man querulously, as if struggling against something deeply insouciant in his nature, 'then we shall all be destroyed, we shall all die. Surely we care about that?' 'Not enough to want to get killed over it,' said Ford.

It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.

I don't know, apathetic bloody planet, I've no sympathy at all.

Marvin the Paranoid Android sat slumped, ignoring all and ignored by all, in a private and rather unpleasant world of his own.

He turned it over in his hands with a shrug and tossed it aside carelessly, but not so carelessly that it didn't land on something soft

Fuck 'em," said Ford, slumping on the bed. "You can't care about every damn thing.

It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some creature, without forming an opinion about them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.

sizi kahrolas? ilgisiz gezegen, sizlere kar?? hiçbir sempati beslemiyorum.

I said I ordered us some foie gras." "Oh," said Arthur, vaguely. "Um, I always feel a bit bad about foie gras. Bit cruel to the geese, isn't it?" "Fuck 'em," said Ford, slumping on the bed. "You can't care about every damn thing.

She found Lucy to be about as interesting as a toothache.

I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.

I am indeed sorry to say this, but I fear your microscopic problems do not interest me.

The best way to not think of something is to possess it fully, and then cultivate indifference.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

I disdained to argue, and entrenched my curiosity behind a rampart of pretended indifference.

Mon Dieu! It is that in this country you treat the affairs gastronomic with a criminal indifference.

She's very selfish. Not exactly self-centered, but totally indifferent to everyone and everything. Don't you agree?' 'I don't think that's possible,' said Mr Satterthwaite, slowly. 'I mean everyone's interest must go somewhere.

He was not fond of young people in herds. He thought them uninteresting and crude.

Dieu! It is that in this country you treat the affairs gastronomic with a criminal indifference.

Lebih mudah membenci seseorang yang Anda cintai daripada tidak mengacuhkan orang yang Anda cintai.

Men get killed and nobody minds.