Quotes About Indifference

We ought to be able to combine opposites: the love of goodness with indifference to other people's opinions, a liking for work with indifference to fame, concern for our health with indifference to life.

I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.

This was the way the world ended. Not with a bang, nor even a whimper, but with a sort of creeping paralysis of indifference.

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences

Around the windows and above the doors were a multitude of small pictures, which you grow accustomed to regard as spots on the wall, and which you never look at.

Il disparut à jamais, cet être sans défense à qui personne n'avait jamais témoigné d'affection, ni porté le moindre intérêt, non, personne, pas même l'un de ces naturalistes toujours prêts à épingler la plus banale des mouches pour l'examiner au microscope.

And Petersburg was left without Akakii Akakievich, as though he had never lived there. A being disappeared, and was hidden, who was protected by none, dear to none, interesting to none, who never even attracted to himself the attention of an observer of nature, who omits no opportunity of thrusting a pin through a common fly, and examining it under the microscope...

Así desapareció un ser humano que nunca tuvo quién lo amparara, a quien nadie había querido y que jamás interesó a nadie

Así desapareció un ser humano a quien nadie defendió, a quien nadie había querido, por quien nadie se interesó… Fue un ser que soportó humildemente las burlas de sus colegas y que bajó a la tumba sin haber realizado nada extraordinario.

How strangely, how inconceivably our fate plays with us! Do we ever get what we desire? Do we ever achieve that for which our powers seem purposely to prepare us? Everything happens in a contrary way. To this one fate gave wonderful horses, and he drives around indifferently without ever noticing their beauty—while another, whose heart burns with the horse passion, goes on foot and contents himself with merely clicking his tongue as a trotter is led past him.

Se llevaron el cadáver y le dieron sepultura. Y San Petersburgo se quedó sin Akaki Akákievich, como si nunca hubiera existido. Desapareció para siempre ese ser a quien nadie defendió, por quien nadie profesó afecto ni mostró el menor interés ; ni siquiera despertó la curiosidad de los naturalistas; siempre dispuestos a clavar un alfiler a una simple mosca para observarla a un microscopio.

Katerina Lvovna lived a boring life in the rich house of her father-in-law during the five years of marriage to her unaffectionate husband; but, as often happens, no one paid the slightest attention to this boredom of hers.

the majority were of the species who, all the world over, look on the world and at everything that goes on in it and merely scratch their noses.

People can certainly be beastly about the things that affect them least, can't they?

the way they make you fell does not mater

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it withing his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

But because I do not wish to be remembered (if I will be remembered) as a self-indulgent fantasist, I'll skip the purple patch for now, however much I wish to write it. I need to make amends for my indifference, for having turned my back on the world in favor of the beauties of the way. I'll try to study cruelty (I regret my own) and render it in more familiar terms.

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.

Yes, you learn your lessons as they come your way... And when you have learned them all they can stick red-hot pokers in your wife and babies and you will only laugh to see it. Because you will know by then that people don't matter a damn. Men are like corn growing. The sun burns them up and the rain washes them out and the winter freezes them, and the cavalry tramps them down, but somehow they keep growing. And none of it matters a damn so long as the whisky holds out.

Zenginler, hiçbir ?eye ald?rmama, hiçbir ?eyden heyecanlanmama lüksüne sahiptirler; bu nedenle çok ya?arlar.

Beni pek sevmezlerdi. Fakat, cahil olduklar? için, korkuyla.kar???k bir sayg? beslerlerdi bana. Sözlerimi hiç anlamazlard?; fakat gene de ba?lar?n? sallarlard? durmadan. Ben de ayaklar?m? uzat?r, üstünlü?ümün verdi?i gururla rahat ederdim bu evde. Y?llard?r da, rahat etmek istemedi?im için çok seyrek u?ruyordum onlara.

My God doesn't love me or hate me or watch over me or know me at all, and I feel no love for or loyalty to my God. My God just is.

We go on having stupid wars that we justify and get passionate about, but in the end, all they do is kill huge numbers of people, maim others, impoverish still more, spread disease and hunger, and set the stage for the next war. And when we look at all of that in history, we just shrug our shoulders and say, well, that's the way things are. That's the way things always have been.