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Quotes About Indifference

I constantly finding myself care too much for those who care too less.
~ Unknown
I like how he ignores me now like I don't even exist. He's still so incredible that it's impossible to resist. I like how he could walk by me in the hallway and not give me another glance. I like how he won't bother giving us a second chance.
~ Unknown
I still love you, but it doesn't matter to you anymore.
~ Unknown
During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference.
~ Pope Francis
i did not care. i would have no need of her. i did not plan to live after he was gone.
~ Madeline Miller
As for the goddess' answer, I did not care. I would have no need of her. I did not plan to live after he was gone
~ Madeline Miller
so I don't fucking kill myself of boredom
~ Madeline Miller
But it was not kindness he lacked; it was interest. His gaze passed over her as if she were not there.
~ Madeline Miller
But it was not kindness he lacked; it was interest.
~ Madeline Miller
After that, I was craftier with my observation, kept my head down and my eyes ready to leap away. But he was craftier still. At least once a dinner he would turn and catch me before I could feign indifference. Those seconds, half-seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all. The sudden swoop of my sotmach, the coursing anger. I was like a fish eyeing the hook.
~ Madeline Miller
I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Wasn't it hard that you did so much for children and loved them so deeply and they seemed so indifferent to you in return?
~ Maeve Binchy
I don't. If it mattered to me even one bit, I wouldn't be here with you, Nakano-san!
~ Unknown
I lived through all these times, these great events, without caring very much, concerned with my own aging rather than the world's. Most of us do likewise. History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar
~ Mal Peet
Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.
~ Malcolm Turnbull
Contrary to what you obviously believe, I don't spend my hours thinking up ways to annoy you,' Troy snaps. 'Actually, I don't think of you at all, so could you miss me with your bullshit, please?
~ Malorie Blackman
Unconcerned but not indifferent.
~ Man Ray
Undankbarkeit beginnt mit dem Vergessen. Aus Vergessen folgt Gleichgültigkeit, aus der Gleichgültigkeit Unzufriedenheit, aus der Unzufriedenheit Verzweiflung, aus der Verzweiflung der Fluch.
~ Unknown
indifference is fragile armour. — Manuel Ulacia (1953-2001), from "The Stone at the Bottom." Poetry in Translation (archived) Translated by Sarah Lawson.
~ Unknown
Pourquoi les filles tombent-elles raides amoureuses d'hommes qui les font souffrir et traitent avec indifférence ceux qui seraient prêts à leur décrocher la lune ?
~ Marc Levy
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
Perhaps she would not have thought of wickedness as a state so rare, so abnormal, so exotic, one which it was so refreshing to visit, had she been able to distinguish in herself, as in all her fellow-men and women, that indifference to the sufferings which they cause which, whatever names else be given it, is the one true, terrible and lasting form of cruelty.
~ Marcel Proust
La mayoría de las personas que conocemos no nos inspiran más que indiferencia; de modo que cuando en un ser depositamos grandes posibilidades de pena o de alegría para nuestro corazón, se nos figura que pertenece a otro mundo, se envuelve en poesía, convierte nuestra vida en una gran llanura donde nosotros no apreciamos más que la distancia que de él nos separa.
~ Marcel Proust
But old age, to begin with, has something in common with death. Some face it with indifference, not because they have more courage than others, but because they have less imagination.
~ Marcel Proust