Quotes About Indifference

Given the prevalence of snake fears among humans and our closest genetic relatives, chimpanzees, it is reasonable to believe that those who were indifferent to dangerous snakes were more likely to die and less likely to become our ancestors.

To be surrendered means to have no strong emotion about a thing: "It's okay if it happens, and it's okay if it doesn't.

In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.

This being a stranger was like being dead, And brought to mind how, in a book he had read That most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.

The nice thing about crowds is that someone can throw a bottle and you don't take it personally.

It is what it is," which is ubiquitous now and means absolutely nothing, as far as we can see. "Isn't that the state motto of South Dakota?" I said the second or third time I heard it.

She'd never expressed any great interest in the outdoors, so I scattered her remains on the carpet and then vacuumed her back up.

Don't get me wrong, I wish them the best. I just don't feel the need to see them again.

Era un desatino que luego de un bombardeo me llevaran cadáveres de tuberculosos o de alguien que rodó por las escaleras o de un viejo que no pudo más con su vejez o de una mujer que se quedó en el parto; eran muertos de segundo orden, pues no llevaban la aureola de víctimas, sino de meros impertinentes.

No sé por qué me importaste tú cuando no me importaba ya nadie

But the universe wasn't really unfair, she thought, and her mouth quirked. It just didn't give much of a damn one way or the other.

Power is living while others inevitably perish. Power is cool indifference to their suffering. Power is taking nourishment from the deaths of others, just as the mighty redwoods draw sustenance from the perpetual decomposition of what once lived, but lived only briefly, around them. This is also part of the philosophy of Edgler Foreman Vess.

The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

These people walk by a window deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, Business as usual But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story.

In the spineless perversity of your inertia, I detect indifference, even a whiff of condescension.

And then you may think of it as promiscuous, but the girl herself is asleep, and doesn't even know who she has slept with. The girl the other time and the girl tonight will never know a thing about you, and to speak of promiscuousness is a little…

The lady was old, the lady was ill. It didn't matter what the lady believed.

She loves to make a fuss, but she is rarely very attached to the fuss she makes.

she received all things with the stolidness of the earth which soaks up urine and perfume with the same indifference.

I have a husband at home who doesn't care about politics or global affairs.

That's me: success and failure don't affect me.

We've made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don't know. I don't care. I'm just grateful for it.

You can come after me all day long. I don't care.

I just think about how much worse something could be, and I'm like, 'Alright, cool, whatever.' I'm nonchalant.