Quotes About Indifference

I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.

I care about strangers when they're abstractions but feel almost nothing when they are literally in front of me. They seem like unnamed characters in a poorly written novel about myself, which was poorly written by me.

If you hate everything, you're a banal asshole…but if you don't hate anything, you're boring.

In any situation, the villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.

If you did not really care, any experience could be entertaining.

That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.

Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.

A guy's calling to say he's failing algebra II. Just as a point of practice, I say, Kill yourself. A woman calls and says her kids won't behave. Without missing a beat, I tell her, Kill yourself. A man calls to say his car won't start. Kill yourself. A woman calls to ask what time the late movie starts. Kill yourself. She asks, Isn't this 555-1327? Is this the Moorehouse CinePlex? I say, Kill yourself. Kill yourself. Kill yourself.

You don't care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

After fight club you're so relaxed, you just cannot care.

It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't love.

Still screaming. As if the stars give a shit.

You're that tree falling in the forest that nobody gives a rat's ass about.

Nobody cared if he lived or died, and the feeling was fucking mutual.

I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, no, that's not right. Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

Tyler said he was nobody. Nobody cared if he lived or died, and the feeling was fucking mutual.

The incurious eye misses the obvious, the subtle, the subtext. The incurious eye is glazed in a cataract of ignorance and indifference. The incurious eye is neither blind nor myopic. It is empty.

Kaufman almost smiled at the perfection of its horror. He felt an offer of insanity tickling the base of his skull, tempting him into oblivion, promising a blank indifference to the world.

Indifference was the best remedy. Once you conceded defeat, life was a feather bed.

And with that comprehension, so unlike the simplifications she'd been ruled by hitherto, she became even more certain that the carpet they carried was a last hope, while he — whose home the Weave contained — seemed increasingly indifferent to its fate, living in the moment and for the moment, touched scarcely at all by hope or regret.

No passion, only sudden lust, and just as sudden indifference.

could have cared less

Coffee is coffee to me, I don't mind what country it comes from, who picks it or under what conditions, and I really don't give a damn who serves it or what they're getting paid as long as they get it right.

No one really cares about other people when you get down to it—their own struggles are too close up.