Quotes About Indifference

Nova shrugged, looking as if she had personally invented shrugging and hadn't quite sorted out the fine details yet.

I always wondered how it would feel when it was over,' said Malik eventually. 'Turns out it doesn't feel like anything, much.

Hey!" he said. "That's one of my best shirts!" "So?" she replied without looking up. "It's one of my best legs.

Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.

Ovidio ha scritto che il tempo distrugge le cose, ma si è sbagliato. Soltanto gli uomini distruggono le cose. E distruggono gli altri uomini. E distruggono il mondo degli uomini. Il tempo li guarda fare e disfare. E scorre indifferente.

In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero nor a slave. It eats what it's served.

Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something completely unlike it: indifference, mockery, scheming, coldness, insolence, perhaps even contempt. But they're mistaken, and that makes them furious. They commit an awful crime. This is doubtless the reason why most saints end up as martyrs.

But then, he calls many things mad that he does not care for. Perhaps that is easier than accepting them.

No one looks up. No one pauses. No one even questions. Easy as falling off a log. I

Japanese "indifference to the Mystery of the Universe," my cousin's great-grandfather was wise enough to add, "is that which enables them to give more time and to spend more energy on the solution of the problems nearer at hand." · That same indifference binds them together, because there's no need for individual speculation or debate in a choir; Shinto, lacking arguments, cannot be refuted.

Le succès, le temps, l'argent, et l'imprimerie sont relégués au fond de ma pensée dans des horizons très vagues et parfaitement indifférents. Tout cela me semble bête comme chou et indigne (je répète le mot, indigne) de vous émouvoir la cervelle.

You have to approach something with indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. The choice of readymades is always based on visual indifference and, at the same time, on the total absence of good or bad taste.

Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

Trump might have a populist message that resonates with some voters, but the man doesn't care about any of the people he's appealing to.

People are selfish, man. They want what they want; they don't care what you want.

We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore.

I don't really care about awards.

I'm not afraid of what people say about me. I don't care if people say, 'You're an awful person.'

You can put me in the basement or the penthouse; it doesn't matter to me.

One thing I hate is going to a beach - they all look the same to me!

I don't care about the Strikeforce belt.

Not only during the ascent but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goal seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing—and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is—like death through freezing—a pleasant one. Reinhold Messner   The Crystal Horizon I