Quotes About Indifference

Tallulah has not left this room for days now, maybe longer. The edges of Tallulah's days feel ragged and unformed. Scarlett still comes and goes with food and drinks and treats but Tallulah no longer asks her about the outside world because she no longer cares, all she cares about is sleep.

A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.

It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country; I have more reason than anyone to feel, every day of my life, the value of the blood which flows in my veins, and it is only from prudence that at times I abstain from showing how proud I am of it.

I don't really care what the venture industry thinks.

It never bothers me playing huge venues; it's not personal, is it?

She takes her pleasure and I am no more for her than if I had never met her; she has suddenly emptied herself of me, and all other consciousness in the world has also emptied itself of me.

The equality of tolerance is not that far from indifference, and very far from the equality of opportunity that LBJ envisioned.

And so Deb is the only person in the world who gives a rusty possum fart whether I live or die.

If somebody had shouted at me, Look out behind you! He's got a gun! I would have replied with no more than a weary mumble, Tell him to take a number and wait.

But it is a truism of life that no matter how much we are suffering, nobody else cares—generally speaking, nobody even notices.

Other people are less important to me than lawn furniture.

And why did I actually give a single hummingbird's fart what it meant?

Of course, that made it seem even worse: I had killed for room service. What a terrible, low creature I was. I wondered whether I should feel cheap and tawdry, or perhaps just jaded and callous. How much lower could I sink? I was already indifferent to the suffering of my victims, so I couldn't really try to make that fit a new and colder me, if there actually was one.

The police did not like to come to neighborhoods like this one, where the best they could hope for was hostile indifference.

You are so silly sometimes, Jess. I fell in love with you, and I don't give a damn who your

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in, and that for all their caretaking and bitching about crabgrass they didn't give a damn about lawns.

Apesar de todos os cuidados e reclamações sobre ervas daninhas, eles não davam a mínima para os gramados.

I should have been moved. I wasn't. It was as if I'd been frozen, as if I was now a woman made of ice, and he'd come at me not with a torch or even a candle, but with a toothpick, and was plink plink plinking against the smooth impenetrability of my body. I couldn't feel a thing.

smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness… and let other people clean up the mess.

How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.

Why do we wrap things? Usually to protect them. The more fragile they are, the more important the wrapping. Your dream is prey to many perils. It may shatter under the blows of criticism, evaporate with competition's heat, sink to the bottomless depths of others' indifference. Tend to your dream. Protect it as you would a fallen nestling. Until the day when it—and you—will fly.

She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as nothing I walked in a gray world of nothing.

I would just spit, burp, and call good riddance! Who needs ya? Who cares?