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Quotes About Indifference

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.
~ Unknown
There is no love lost between us.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our ''natural'' attitude toward the ''other'' is one of either indifference or hostility.
~ Unknown
If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.
~ Edna St Vincent Millay
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
~ Unknown
Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.
~ Vanna Bonta
Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn
~ James Thurber
I've grown tired of love You are the trouble with me I watch you walk right by
~ Anne Sexton
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
~ Elie Wiesel
When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled with war, poverty, and cruelty.
~ Mary Doria Russell
Sissy tilted her chair back so far I was sure she'd fall on her head any second. Not that I cared. Maybe she'd leave if she hurt herself.
~ Mary Downing Hahn
Don't you care that your neighbors are suffering?" "In a word, no. The Bible says that the poor will always be with us, and if Jesus couldn't change that, I certainly can't.
~ Mary Jo Putney
Feeling must have rendered her numb.
~ Mary Lawson
When left alone with her, I ignored her and kept my eyes on my book, though I confess I turned over more pages than I read.
~ Unknown
Indifference is not caring. Detachment is caring deeply enough to separate.
~ Unknown
comprehending little and caring less.
~ Marya Hornbacher
Hatred is so much closer to love than indifference.
~ Marya Hornbacher
Sometimes I just don't care, and everything comes.
~ Unknown
To say that Buddhist principles such as dependent origination, emptiness, and suchness are impersonal does not mean that Buddhism is indifferent to human affairs. On the contrary, Buddhism as a religion is essentially concerned with the salvation of humankind.
~ Unknown
Naruto: I bet you're dying to know my name! Gaara: I couldn't care less.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Pero las habrían confinado a la categoría de «indiferentes preferidos»: cosas que puedes tener y cultivar, mientras no afecten a tus virtudes y tu integridad moral.
~ Massimo Pigliucci
Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.
~ Matt Haig
As civilisation advances, so does indifference.
~ Matt Haig