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Quotes About Indifference

My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see
~ Marcel Duchamp
The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.
~ Oscar Wilde
When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.
~ Edith Hamilton
Sometimes the best way to solve a problem is to just stop caring.
~ Unknown
The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.
~ Tim Ferriss
You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
~ Franz Grillparzer
The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn
~ Carlos Ghosn
I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.
~ Frances Farmer
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
~ Izaak Walton
Everybody's business is nobody's business.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
The global business climate is likewhatever, dude.
~ Michael Ian Black
These days he was like a zombie, all grim business, just another jerk with an erection.
~ Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers
Ironically my brother died in a car accident shortly after Airbag was recorded. He's not an identical twin so I didn't care.
~ Thom Yorke
We put up protective walls made of opinions, prejudices, and strategies, barriers that are built on a deep fear of being hurt. These walls are further fortified by emotions of all kinds: anger, craving, indifference, jealousy and envy, arrogance and pride.
~ Pema Chodron
A dor faz-nos cruéis, A dor muito prolongada faz-nos cruéis e indiferentes à crueldade, o que é ainda pior.
~ Unknown
The government's response to the Irish potato blight of the 1840s, which caused around 1 million Irish people to die of starvation or disease and another million to emigrate, was incompetent and indifferent when it was not cruel.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Solo sufre por lo que no sabe. Lo que sabe, le deja indiferente. Si sabe algo de algo, pero no puede llegar a saber qué es y cómo es, entonces eso le atrae y tiene ganas de saber más. Lo inalcanzable seduce.
~ Peter Handke
Hell is not populated mainly by passionate rebels but by nice, bland, indifferent, respectable people who simply never gave a damn.
~ Peter Kreeft
You could stand there two hours; you could stand there five minutes. The Pacific didn't give a hoot about time. It would eat a year for breakfast. Is that why they'd always been so drawn to it? Is that why, still, they came and stood at the edge, day after day? Its blessed indifference? [Pacific]
~ Peter Orner
Love lost or rejected may first turn to hate, but only over time does it become indifference.
~ Peter Robinson
Every death even the cruelest death drowns in the total indifference of Nature Nature herself would watch unmoved if we destroyed the entire human race I hate Nature this passionless spectator this unbreakable iceberg-face that can bear everything this goads us to greater and greater acts
~ Peter Weiss
Chiedi al Bunkerjakob che controllava tutto Come fai a resistere Lui disse Sia lode a quanto rende duri Io sto bene mangio le razioni di quelli là dentro La loro morte non mi tocca Tutto questo mi tocca quanto può toccarmi la pietra di questo muro
~ Peter Weiss
A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that 'No man is an island,' but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man .
~ Philip K. Dick
An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for. "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android.
~ Philip K. Dick