Quotes About Indifference

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

Podem rezar latim sobre o meu caixão, se quiserem. Se quiserem, podem dançar e cantar à roda dele. Não tenho preferências para quando já não puder ter preferências. O que for, quando for, é que será o que é.

Yes: I exist inside my body. I'm not carrying the sun and the moon in my pocket. I don't want to conquer worlds because I slept badly, And I don't want to eat the world for breakfast because I have a stomach. Indifferent? No: a son of the earth, who, if he jumps, it's wrong, A moment in the air that's not for us, And only happy when his feet hit the ground again, Pow! In reality where nothing's missing! (6/20/1919)

Si accorse che poteva ormai guardarla con freddezza e oggettività, con sguardo sgombro di sentimento. Prima, quando l'amava ancora, la contemplava senza veramente vederla; adesso la vedeva, come si vede un oggetto qualsiasi, senza contemplarla. (Piccola e gelosa)

Dat is mijn misdaad... ik heb gezondigd in onverschilligheid...

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

La 16 ani investeam o gramad? de energie s?-mi afiÈ™ez plictiseala: îmi d?deam ochii peste cap, r?spundeam lapidar la întreb?rile p?rinÈ›ilor, r?mâneam impasibil la poveÈ™tile de via?? pe care le împ?rt??eau. Îmi construisem o armura de fier care îmi permitea s? evadez, s? citesc È™i s? m? întorc în propria-mi celul? f?r? ca nimeni s? observe.

Joshua needed to eat something before embarking upon it, and hence stood in line behind an overtattooed prick who couldn't decide between banana and pumpkin bread, while the barista in a Che Guevara hat (yet presumably fluent in Middle fucking English) looked on indifferently.

I am apprehensive, Sir, that in the warmth of my feelings, I may have uttered expressions, which were too vehement. If such has been my language, it was from the habit of using strong phrases to express my ideas; and, above all, from the interesting nature of the subject. I have ever condemned those cold, unfeeling hearts, which no object can animate. I condemn those indifferent mortals, who either never form opinions, or never make them known.

Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.

As Anthony Thiselton puts it, "The opposite of love is not correction but indifference.

I found it much harder to accept the harsh reality of the German experience in the Third Reich. We, a civilized, humane people, had allowed ourselves to become indifferent to brutality committed by our own government on our own citizens.

J'aime, et je sais répondre avec indifférence ; J'aime, et rien ne le dit ; j'aime, et seul je le sais ; Et mon secret m'est cher, et chère ma souffrance ; Et j'ai fait le serment d'aimer sans espérance, Mais non pas sans bonheur ; – je vous vois, c'est assez.

Alfred E. Neuman

You can love me, you can hate me, but just don't be indifferent. Care about it enough to watch.

I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him.

I despair of reality television, but I've never met anyone who watches it. Or people say, 'I watch it, but I hate it.' I've never met anyone who loves it. It's like, it's there, and we have to accept it.

For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.