Quotes About Indifference

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best, and he answered, "Somebody else's."

You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.

Any man will usually get from other men just what he is expecting of them. If he is looking for friendship he will likely receive it. If his attitude is that of indifference, it will beget indifference. And if a man is looking for a fight, he will in all likelihood be accommodated in that.

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent.

He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.

I... know what I do, and am unmoved by men's blame, or their praise either.

If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don't lose heart. The sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak, yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat.

Ostati ravnodušan prema knjizi zna?i lakomisleno osiromašiti svoj život.

Edison, Oedipus, platypus. Whatever.

Anyway, said Robert, they got a big fright. After that they started dropping pellets in the water and digging latrines and spraying for flies and bringing buckets of soap. But do you think they do it because they love us? Not a hope. They prefer it that we live because we look too terrible when we get sick and die. If we grew thin and turned into paper and then into ash and floated away, they wouldn't give a stuff for us. They just don't want to get upset. They want to go to sleep feeling good.

if Jesus had stooped to play politics he might have become a key man in Roman Judea, a big operator. It was because he was indifferent to politics, and made his indifference clear, that he was liquidated. How to live one's life outside politics, and one's death too: that was the example he set for his followers.

por qué precisamente su hijo, mientras los otros noventa y nueve siguen incólumes, jugando y disfrutando? Le parece monstruoso que la oscuridad haya engullido a David, que no haya indignación, ni clamor, que nadie se arranque los cabellos ni rechine los dientes, que el mundo siga girando sobre su eje como si nada hubiera ocurrido.

crees que me amarían, unos niños engendrados desde las entrañas de la indiferencia? Por supuesto que no. Me odiarían y me despreciarían, que es exactamente lo que yo me merecería. ¿Quién necesita a un padre de corazón ausente?

The warrior (Zsadist) rolled his black eyes. Come on, man. What does it matter to me? You, Tohr. Britney Spears.

Why the hell do you care?" With a shrug, Mayhem replied, "I don't have anything better to do. And I haven't been allowed to watch TV for how long? Your drama is going to be my new favorite show.

Your understanding is not required. Reality really doesn't give a shit about rational and reasonable.

Shut the door behind you. Or don't. I don't give a fuck. But if I don't leave now, I'm going to have to explain to Elise why I killed you, and I'd rather talk about her class schedule." —

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me

Overpowered by the sadness of not knowing what there is in the world, and what I'm doing. Feeling completely indifferent to good and evil too, to beauty or anything else. I know that this is the root of all human troubles, all of them. Indifferent to that knowledge, too. Nothing got written.

He no longer cared about anything (as before) but now he also cared about everything in principle; that is to say, it was all the same to him and he belonged to the world and there was nothing he could do about it.