Quotes About Indifference

Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn't care one whit about us. Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.

A female feline named Katta Is getting fatta and fatta But she's pretty and purry And funny and furry So what does an ounce or two matta?

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat it.

She seemed amused, entirely uninterested in changing him. He knew it was like that at first with anyone. He also knew it might mean that she didn't care about him at all.

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters

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Don't want to reach for me, do you? I mean nothing to you, the little things give you away

The seek after glory should be careless of public opinion

It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.

Dr. Rhinestein did not test for malice, for spiteful indifference, or for congenital meanness. If they could, I wonder how many fish we might throw back.

I bask in their heatedness as before a woodstove. My own apathy is bone chilling.

unto me a son was born, and I felt nothing.

Over the years I observed Kevin watching decapitations, disembowelments, dismemberments, flayings, impalements, deoculations, and crucifixions, and I never saw him flinch. Because he'd mastered the trick. If you decline to identify, slice-and-dice is no more discomforting than watching your mother prepare beef stroganoff.

indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.

There's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.

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Yet what best protected privacy wasn't concealment but apathy - the fact that other people simply weren't interested.

Yet what best protected privacy wasn't concealment but apathy—the fact that other people simply weren't interested.

To truly pull off proper apathy about the stuff (money) would require so much energy, such contrived ideological zealotry, that the indifference would amount to a kind of caring.

The very best thing about getting old was basking in this great big not-giving-a-shit.

I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.

But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.