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Quotes About Indifference

Jace knew he was being cruel, and he barely cared. Hurting people he loved was almost as good as hurting himself when he was in this kind of mood.
~ Cassandra Clare
Stressing that 'the many shall not be placed in danger by the few', the paper urged readers to wear a mask. 'Those who are not doing so are not showing their independence – they are only showing their indifference for the lives of others – for the lives of the women and the helpless little children who cannot help themselves.
~ Catharine Arnold
this town has no soul. and nobody yields to your love. nobody yields, period.
~ Catherine Clark
Just like you couldn't leave your mother. You were a child. She was all you had. You bonded to indifference and, at times, her cruelty. Your job was to endure it and to protect her from detection.
~ Catherine Gildiner
When someone says they don't care if you're sexually satisfied and they don't care if you want to go to nice restaurants instead of car races, they're at least indifferent and unkind. He was nice when you were dating and until he got your dad's money.
~ Catherine Gildiner
I am free of all prejudices...i hate evreyone equally.
~ Catherine Goldhammer
I don't think you feel much of anything anymore.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Her body felt like a giant bag of lack. Lack of motivation. Lack of strength. Lack of rigidity. Lack of caring.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
The one where you appeal to someone's ego. I don't care about that stuff anymore. Whether I'm looked upon as wise or not. I don't need to be right at this point in my life. I don't care what other people choose to do. I just know what I want to do now.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Jax stood up straight and clapped his hands together. "Welp," he announced, "I'm bored. This is stupid and I'm bored.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
But where does the silence that neglects her end, and where does the silence that respects her begin? The problem with silence is that it can't speak up and say why it's silent. And so silence collects, becomes amplified, takes on a life outside our intentions, in that silence can get misread as indifference, or avoidance, or even shame, and eventually this silence passes over into forgetting.
~ Cathy Park Hong
I sometimes avoid reading a news story when the victim is Asian, because I don't want to pay attention to the fact that no one else is paying attention. I don't want to care that no one else cares. Because I don't want to be left stranded in my rage.
~ Cathy Park Hong
But where does the silence that neglects her end, and where does the silence that respects her begins? The problem with silence is that it can't speak up and say why it's silent. And so silence collects, becomes amplified, takes on a life outside our intentions, in that silence can be misread as indifference, or avoidance, or even shame, and eventually this silence passes over into forgetting.
~ Cathy Park Hong
Some people might think this erratic, possibly a cause for concern. She preferred to think of it as not giving a single, solitary fuck.
~ Cathy Yardley
Inside, I gagged. The floor was awash with excrement. Blocked toilet bowls brimmed with sewage. The place looked as if it hadn't been cleaned in weeks. Nobody had noticed, because nobody who mattered ever went in there.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Laten we ons nergens wat van aantrekken en op de gewone tijd gaan eten.
~ Gerard Reve
Wie weet, wordt mijn Ziel steeds gezonder, of misschien ook niet - ik heb van die dingen erg weinig verstand - maar in ieder geval trekt hij zich tegenwoordig van heel wat zaken geen bal meer aan.
~ Gerard Reve
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
~ German proverb
The island children did not look at the Aldens. In fact, they looked the other way.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
Mañana me esperaban otros caminos. Fáciles, ruidosos, comunes. La fe a medias, las falsas banderas. Me resignaría a ello, ¿qué otra cosa podía hacer? Puesto que la seducción de la nada era inútil, repugnándole al corazón por tantos indicios dejarse persuadir por ella. Y ni la infelicidad, con su amarga miel, me servía ya.
~ Gesualdo Bufalino
Il mondo può progredire e in effetti progredisce per effetto di azioni umane positive, per effetto dell'impegno, per effetto della non-indifferenza. Il principio vale per le azioni globali e per le azioni locali e noi dobbiamo tenerne conto.
~ Gianrico Carofiglio
You never cared enough to be Black
~ Gil Scott-Heron
I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.
~ Gilbert Arenas
Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton