Quotes About Indifference

My dear, I don't give a damn [Rhett Butler to Scarlett O'Hara].

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

My dear, I don't give a damn.

I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't... My dear, I don't give a damn.

Writing implies faith in someone listening,/ different in content but not need/ from the child who cries in the night./ Making is an attack on dying, on chaos,/ on blind inertia, on the second law/ of thermodynamics, on indifference, on cold,/ on contempt, on the silence/ that does not follow the chord resolved,/ the sentence spoken, but the something/ that cannot be said.

The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which I could never have; however that may be, my loves have left me more often than I have left them, for I have never been able to understand how one could have enough of any beloved. The desire to count up exactly the riches which each new love brings us, and to see it change, and perhaps watch it grow old, accords ill with multiplicity of conquests.

Knowing a man for a fool, why should I trouble myself with his maggots?

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Only to themselves are the passionate hot. To the objects of their passion they are cold. What Yeats knew. They eradicate what they notice, as the thumb hard-crams the clay impressionable under it, to lie flat, apt to the shape their cold-steel scribes may cut or spurn it to. Yet they know passion must drown to ripen sweet & give fair play to the whole life hot passion speeds us from.

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.

He receives comfort like cold porridge.

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.

Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care

To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

Frankly, once I've eaten a thing... I don't expect to see it again.

Life can be funny and serious. We either laugh over it or cry over it. But Life itself doesn't care about such reactions. It goes on.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?