Quotes About Indifference

that distant look characteristic of people who do not wish to be agreeable...

It was fortunate that I had not already yielded to the temptation to break with Albertine; the tedium of having to rejoin her presently, when I went home, was a trifling matter compared with the anxiety that I should have felt if the separation had occurred when I still had a doubt about her and before I had had time to grow indifferent to her.

She insisted, but he would not receive her. He was not even acting out of necessity: she meant nothing to him anymore. Death had rapidly broken the bonds whose enslavement he had been dreading for several weeks. When he tried to think of Oliviane, nothing presented itself to his mind's eye: the eyes of his imagination and of his vanity had closed.

47: Equal in strength, and rather then be less 48: Car'd not to be at all; with that care lost 49: Went all his fear:

Isa. xliii. 22, "Thou hast not called upon me, thou hast been weary of me.

François Mitterrand is credited with saying that the most essential quality for any statesman is indifference

Hey, people get killed from time to time, that's just the way of the world, let's not bust a budget about it . . .

I'm so looking forward to this—it's an adventure. I'm praying that the kid's healthy, that's all. Boy, girl, I don't care.

Do you know what I plan to do with my body once I am dead?" "I do not, Countess." "Neither do I. I'll be dead and I won't give a shit.

She thought it was pretty much the only way to be in a universe that didn't care about anyone's life one way or another, and in a civilization that was designed to keep the rich as rich as possible and the poor from actively starving so they wouldn't think to rise up and behead the rich.

My Schadenfreude phaser is set to Meh.

Can I just wrap up this whole line of conversation by saying I really don't give a shit whether you're upset? If you were actually hurt, or dead, then I'd say sorry. But you're not, so suck it up.

Garner had to search for his little girl in this endless sea of irrelevancy and indifference and preoccupied people and deteriorating places. This is crazy, this is hopeless ...

We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.

You don't even know where I'm going. I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.

The ants were busy on the ground, big black ones with shiny bodies and the little dusty quick ants. Kino watched with the detachment of God while a dusty ant frantically tried to escape the sand trap an ant lion had dug for him. He watched the ants moving, a little column of them near to his foot, and he put his foot in their path. Then the column climbed over his instep and continued on its way, and Kino left his foot there and watched them move over it.

Awright—take 'im." He did not look down at the dog at all. He lay back on his bunk and crossed his arms behind his head and stared at the ceiling. From

Those sons-of-bitches over there ain't buying. Every yard gets 'em. They're lookers. Spend all their time looking. Don't want to buy no cars; take up your time. Don't give a damn for your time.

He takes two tea bags in a four-ounce cup and he doesn't mince words: when a pair of earnest British journalists once asked him how he thought the tigers could be saved, his answer, "AIDS," caught them off guard. "But don't you care about people?" one of them asked. "Not really," he replied. "Especially not the Chinese.

Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

Be it Valentine's Day, Father's Day or Mother's Day, I feel all days are reminders of some feelings. February 14 doesn't hold any special relevance for me.

Don't repackage your fear and try to sell it to me as indifference.

If we're honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference.

Anger is such a wasted emotion. Half of the people you are angry with don't know it and the other half don't care about it.