Quotes About Indifference

Nobody's out to save the world, because nobody gives a damn about the world, that was just a bunch of goofy kids talking.

Zombies, deadheads, corpsicles. What's the difference? They don't care. They don't have feelings to hurt.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

We have progressed from the stone age and moved on to the age of stone hearted people

You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes just so you don't have to go along.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference.

We don't need much imagination to imagine that to be free of hatred, of enmity, of the endless and hopeless effort to oppose violence with violence, would be to have life more abundantly. To be free of indifference would be to have life more abundantly. To be free of the insane rationalizations for our desire to kill one another-that surely would be to have life more abundantly.

White people who wished to think well of themselves did not use the language of racial insult in front of black people. But the problem for us white people, as we finally had to understand, was that we could not be selectively complicit. To be complicit at all, even thoughtlessly by custom, was to be complicit in the whole extent and reach of the injustice. It is hard for customary indifference to utstick itself from the abominations to which it tacitly consents.

There is nothing very instructive, for example, in hearing that "the cow jumped over the moon," but who is not delighted by that poem's exuberant indifference to the possibility of making sense? It is a masterpiece. Even so, I am happy to know that some poems delight and instruct, which is a richer possibility.

We need to confront honestly the issue of scale. Bigness has a charm and a drama that are seductive, especially to politicians and financiers; but bigness promotes greed, indifference, and damage, and often bigness is not necessary. You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you don't need a large corporation to raise a chicken or a hog. You don't need a large corporation to process local food or local timber and market it locally.

The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.

But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.

You know that if I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

He was as calm as a god who has seen both life and death, and seen nothing of particular importance in either of them.

Ou talvez quando se aceita alguma coisa, ela deixa realmente de importar, quer a gente queira quer não.

She can paint herself red and hang on the wall and whistle, I don't care

Look like you've come up short on the number of fucks you need to not give

You don't even care enough about us to hate us, do you?

Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.

I mean course you want a change, we want a change, but if a change ain't godsdamn coming, then the next thing I wish is that I didn't care.

My father passed me. He looked briefly at me as you might at a stump or a broken machine or anything that's specific only in that it's in your way, to walk around it as my father did me.

What was the point of dedicating your life to giving warnings if everyone who might have listened—because the majority were still unbothered and would possibly remain so till the sun went out—merely nodded and agreed?