Quotes About Indifference

When did you stop caring? he asked.When did you start noticing? she replied.

ÎncercaÈ›i s? nu v? gândiÈ›i la voi. S? v? transformaÈ›i viaÈ›a în potire în care s? se adune alt? via??, mai plin?, mai uman?. Când aveÈ›i de f?cut un lucru, gândiÈ›i-v? la ceea ce trebuie f?cut, nu la cine îl face. IgnoraÈ›i cu furie fructul actelor voastre. S? nu v? intereseze dac? un lucru e apreciat, e recompensat, e premiat. TreceÈ›i peste el îndat? ce l-aÈ›i f?cut.

If others neither have goods we want nor can perform services we need, we make sure that they are at a safe distance and close ourselves off from them so that their emaciated and tortured bodies can make no inordinate claims on us.

grim reminder of how little the natural world cares for our plans.

Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. If that is true, then the opposite is also true: that the greatest love we can show our children is the attention we pay them, the time we take for them. Maybe we serve children the best simply by noticing them.

The young man she had fallen in love with, handsome, gay, intellectual, and domineering, melted away upon closer acquaintance, and proved to have been a chimera, never to have existed outside her imagination. Linda did not commit the usual fault of blaming Tony for what was entirely her own mistake, she merely turned from him in absolute indifference. This was made easier by the fact that she saw so little of him.

Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

No tienes que hacer nada para caer bien o mal. O te acepta o te tira de lado.

Perhaps it's not possible to explain, he said. Certain things in your life matter to you because they're important; your acts are certainly important to you, but for me, not a single thin is important any longer neither my acts nor the acts of any of my fellow men. I go on living though. because I have my will. Because I have tempered my will throughout my life until it's neat and wholesome and now it doesn't matter to me that nothing matters. My will controls the folly of my life.

Ljutiš li se na mene, don Huane?, upitah ga kada se vratio. Izgledao je iznena?en mojim pitanjem. Ne! Nikada se ni na koga ne ljutim. Niko na ovom svetu ne može da u?ini ništa toliko zna?ajno da bih se ja naljutio. Ljutiš se na ljude onda kada misliš da su njihovi postupci važni. Ja tako više ne mislim.

To him, nature was a merciless beast that fed on its young without caring about the fate of the beings it harboured.

Isabella, if you really want to devote yourself to writing, or at least to writing something others will read, you're going to have to get used sometimes to being ignored, insulted and despised, and almost always to being considered with indifference. It comes with the territory.

In verlorenen Schlachten besteht die letzte Verteidigung in der Gleichgültigkeit.

him at all. He ignored Valls's

En las batallas perdidas, la última defensa es la indiferencia

It wasn't that she stopped being nice; she stopped being anything

Her father drove up and down car aisles, looking for a good slot. Who cared about a good slot? Just park the car already!

Gutterman waved his hand, carelessly dismissing the insult. You can't hurt my feelings, Miss Drew. I abandoned them years ago.

If a person admires you a lot you despise him and you don't care-- and it is the person who doesn't notice you that are apt to admire.

I generally don't become overexcited about things anyway, I'm just not one of those people.I'm not easily surprised by things either. I think it's because I expect that anything can happen. That makes me sound like a believer and I'm not necessarily that either. I'll phrase it better: I just accept things that happen. All things.

In fact, the problem with having a family at all was that nobody noticed if you were dead or alive until dinner went unmade and they found your torso floating in the dirty water behind Ikea.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

You know I love you more when you're cold and heartless.

One of the most wonderful, and the most appalling, things about Eric loving me was that he didn't give a shit about anyone else.