Quotes About Indifference

Maybe even suicide would have been too active. Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don't even try to change. Maybe that was most lives.

He didn't even seem bothered. To seem grateful in any way for the universe he was in. the universe she had felt so guilty for not allowing to happen.

They can talk about peace being a good thing yet glorify war. They can despise the man who kills his wife in rage but worship the indifferent soldier who drops a bomb killing a hundred children.

Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don't even try to change.

They can despise the man who kills his wife in rage but worship the indifferent soldier who drops a bomb killing a hundred children.

They can drive a car thirty miles every day and feel good about themselves for recycling a couple of empty jam jars. They can talk about peace being a good thing yet glorify war. They can despise the man who kills his wife in rage but worship the indifferent soldier who drops a bomb killing a hundred children.

Ha! The meaning of life. The meaning of life. There is none. People search for external values and meaning in a world which not only can't provide it but is also indifferent to their quest. That's not really Schopenhauer. That's more Kierkegaard via Camus. I'm with them. Trouble is, if you study philosophy and stop believing in a meaning, you start to need medical help.

Nora stared down at the small mole on her left hand. That mole had been through everything she'd been through. And it just stayed there, not caring. Just being a mole.

the two most taboo lines in all media in America are I don't know and I don't care.

I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.

I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.

We can never put enough distance between ourselves and what we love. To think that God is, is still to think of him as present; this is a thought according to our measure, destined only to console us. It is much more fitting to think that God is not, just as we must love him purely enough that we could be indifferent to the fact that he should not be. It is for this reason that the atheist is closer to God than the believer.

The tone is not the writer's voice, but the intimacy of the silence he imposes upon the word. This implies that the silence is still his—what remains of him in the discretion that sets him aside. The tone makes great writers, but perhaps the work is indifferent to what makes them great.

F**k them is what I say. I hate those ebooks. They can not be the future. They may well be. I will be dead. I won't give a s**t.

Whatever bro, tell it to the whales

Washington displayed a remarkable indifference to the political future of the eastern battlefields until it was too late.

All things are nothing to me.

An attitude of moral indifference has no connection with scientific "objectivity".

Oti?i ?u, da te ne gledam, oti?i ?u, da ne mislim na izdaju. - Znaš li kako mi je bilo? Znaš li kako mi je i sad? Oti?i ?u, da te ne mrzim, da mi postane svejedno. Rasuo sam tvoj lik po dalekim putevima, raznije?e ga vjetrovi i sprati kiše, nadam se. U meni ?e ga potrti pozlije?enost.

Bolje se držati nebeskih mera, nego obi?nih, ovdašnjih. Neuspjesi te ne uznemiruju, uvijek ra?unaš na beskrajno vrijeme, opravdanje je u razlozima izvan tebe. Li?ni gubitak postaje manje važan. I bol. I ?ovjek. I današnji dan. Sve se produžava na trajanje, bezli?no i ogromno, pospano tromo i sve?ano ravnodušno. Kao more: ne može da žali bezbrojne smrti što se u njemu neprestano dešavaju.

Isklju?io sam se, i bio isklju?en, odvojen od svega oko sebe, i svijet je prili?no avetinjski, živ ali ravnodušan. A i ja sam osamostaljen i neprobojan.

That was it. I never bothered filling in the details. The details didn't matter.

You can't hurt someone who doesn't care about you.

I'm about to ask when I remember something important: I don't give a damn.