Quotes About Indifference

What's the difference between ignorance & arrogance? I don't know & I don't care.

temper is the most destructive of human faults. It supplants trust with fear; it poisons love; it breeds aversion or indifference; it sterilizes emotion.

Not my species, not my problem.

Wherever people feel safe (...) they will be indifferent.

It is passivity that dulls feeling.

Contempt The contempt I feel for others—for myself different, less internal than guilt. It's not that I think (or have ever thought) I was bad—through and through. I think I'm unattractive, unloveable, because I'm incomplete. It's not what I am that's wrong, it's that I'm not more (responsive, alive, generous, considerate, original, sensitive, brave etc.). My profoundest experience is of indifference, rather than censure.

Did I feel all that? So much? As sounds decays into inadudibility, euphoria decays into indifference, and that is always unexpected, the way exalted feelings are weakened, undone by time.

Wherever people feel safe—this was her bitter, self-accusing point—they will be indifferent.

People can turn off not just because a steady diet of images of violence has made them indifferent but because they are afraid.

Heartlessness and amnesia seem to go together.

That I was, in fact, indifferent to my husband's indiscretions testified, to me foremost, that our love was of a tepid paleness.

Oh," said the Duke of Wellington, not much interested, "they are still complaining about that, are they?

One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic.

One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.

at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, and of the [First] Amendment...the general, if not the universal, sentiment in America was, that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the State so far as was not incompatible with the private rights of conscience and the freedom of religious worship. Any attempt to level all religions, and to make it a matter of state policy to hold all in utter indifference, would have created universal disapprobation, if not universal indignation.

You're right, bro," Jetsam said. "Why should I give a shit if a driver don't have pants on? Sometimes I forget where I'm at." Then he looked at his partner and they said in unison, "This is fucking Hollywood!

You mean at my age, I should care?

The sorrows of humanity are no one's sorrows, as newspaper readers long ago found out. A frisson of horror may go down one's spine at wholesale destruction but one's heart stays unmoved. A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

No one was in better position than I to know how easily shyness gets misread for arrogance or coldness or indifference.

Mirror, mirror on the truck Where she went, who gives a fuck?

As Mark Twain famously quipped, "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

I flipped off the television - both ways.

That's a bad bruise." "I scarcely feel it." Indeed, she probably could have been smacked over the head with a log just then and would scarcely have noticed.

He suddenly suspected what everyone comes to understand sooner or later, that communication was impossible and not even desirable, that compassion was worth no more than hate, that a tolerant indifference, an attention divided between respect and sensuality, was all that could be asked or be given.