Quotes About Indifference

With aqueous indifference, the camera lifted its eye.

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

Once there was a princess who was very beautiful. She shone bright as the stars on a moonless night. But what difference did it make that she was beautiful? None. No difference." Why did it make no difference?" asked Abilene. Because," said Pellegrina, "She was a princess who loved no one and cared nothing for love, even though there were many who loved her.

We were two sets of people inhabiting the same space, each set going about its affairs as if the other were not there.

My new tune, of spite and indifference, drowned out the truth: that I'd mistaken the burn of jealousy for love. The heart wants what it is most denied, a hard lesson.

There are moments in friendship, Fred had said, when the thing spreads beyond the ordinary margins, when something is said that carries you beyond the little guidemarks of restraint or indifference, like watercolours merging on a page, a moment when you survey a relationship from som transcendent point and see its beauty, the beauty of persons, of friendship itself.

It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.

One stupid quiz about one stupid thing that happened three hundred years ago to a bunch of people nobody cared about, that didn't have anything to do with real life.

Her spirit alternated constantly between spells of lyricism and spirit possession, making no philosophical distinction between the self alone and in relation to others, and unable to achieve the solace of a religious indifference.

The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

la nature indifférente reprendra le (terrain que l'art lui disputait ; mais la soif de connaître restera éternelle, mobile de toute force et de toute activité !

Nos manchan y nos llagan, creo yo, los delitos del matón rural que roba previos de indios, vapulea hombres y estupra mujeres sin defensa a un kilómetro de nuestros juzgados indiferentes y de nuestras iglesias consentidoras

Sometimes, this good old world does not much care what you believe.

In the end, they didn't like her because they didn't like her. She wasn't going to reason them out of their dislike. She wasn't going to teach anyone anything.

And when a bitch was in heat, he'd mount her good and go about his business without a thought about who was watching or who cared.

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

Tutt'intorno a noi scorreva la città di Roma, splendida nella sua indifferenza, eternamente sicura di sé, felice di prendersi i nostri soldi e posare per una foto, ma senza avere alla fin fine bisogno di niente e di nessuno.

If we speak of an angry God at all, we will speak of a God angry at indifference, angry at apathy, angry at racism and violence, angry at inhumanity, angry at waste, angry at destruction, angry at injustice, angry at hostile religious clannishness. That anger is never against us (or them); it is against what is against us (and them).

Practice focused apathy.

Politics disgusts me.

Elisabeth, unmoved, replied: "Oh, yes, they're curious - whenever there's something to see, they come running, for the monkey dancing at the hurdy-gurdy just as much as for me. That is their love!

Growing up can really suck, he thought. And bad things sure as shit do happen to good people and for the most part the world just doesn't give a crap.

Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe.