Quotes About Indifference

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don't care to know any more.

that arctic blast you're feeling? it's the chill coming off my cold shoulder

I was going to kiss him, and I was going to regret it. But at that moment, I couldn't bring myself to care.

There is no love lost, sir.

You may go whistle for the rest.

There is no love lost between us.

Ni sabe el pueblo qué es fe ni acaso le importa mucho

Bertrand Russell, uno de los más grandes filósofos de nuestro siglo, describe cómo logró la felicidad personal: «gradualmente aprendí a ser indiferente a mi yo y mis deficiencias; centré mi atención cada vez más sobre los objetos externos: el estado del mundo, las diversas ramas del conocimiento, los individuos hacia quienes sentía afecto».

Bertrand Russell, one of the greatest philosophers of our century, described how he achieved personal happiness: "Gradually I learned to be indifferent to myself and my deficiencies; I came to center my attention increasingly upon external objects: the state of the world, various branches of knowledge, individuals for whom I felt affection." There could be no better short description of how to build for oneself an autotelic personality.

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly," in the words of J. H. Holmes. "It is simply indifferent." Chaos

Bertrand Russell, one of the greatest philosophers of our century, described how he achieved personal happiness: "Gradually I learned to be indifferent to myself and my deficiencies; I came to center my attention increasingly upon external objects: the state of the world, various branches of knowledge, individuals for whom I felt affection." There could be no better short description of how to build for oneself an autotelic personality.

El universo no es hostil, pero tampoco es amigable– en palabras de J.H. Holmes–; sencillamente es indiferente.»

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly," in the words of J. H. Holmes. "It is simply indifferent.

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.

I'm sorry to hear that," DeMarco said, although he wasn't sorry. As far as he was concerned Tony deserved to die alone.

I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.

What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only reason he does not go home to bed is that his carriage has not arrived yet.

The people in charge don't know anything. And the ones who do don't care.

I am notorious for making impassioned speeches about things nobody cares about.

And these days, I find I'm caring less and less about what people think of me. Maybe it's my age, maybe it's my security in my career, maybe it's because I'm skrilla flush with that dollah-dollah-bill-y'all, but if I had to identify my overall feeling these days, it's much more "Eh, screw it. Here's how I really feel.

A true master is indifferent to the ways of society.

Ara, sol i expectant, torno a percebre la plenitud del temps, com el ressò potser desmesurat d'una campana que puntua les hores amb un toc remot i displicent d'indiferència.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

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