Quotes About Indifference

You did respond—your response was the worst kind—you did nothing.

o oposto do amor não é o ódio, é a indiferença. (p. 306) (GIFFIN, 2004.)

his unwavering confidence - but now, it feels like a brand of indifference

I saw Richelle turn her head to stare at him curiously. She always thought it was odd when people cared a lot about things. Sometimes I'd try and explain it to her. "It's like you care about clothes and stuff, Richelle," I'd say. But then she'd just look at me as if I was odd. That wasn't something she just cared about. It was life, to her, like breathing in and out. It couldn't be compared to anything else, in her opinion.

It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.

It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life.

And it's amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make.

I'm not impressed

Mulch was not impressed. 'I'm not impressed,' he said.

Mulch was not impressed. "I'm not impressed

Mortals, screw 'em.

Mulch was not impressed. "I'm not impressed," he said.

If they are wise, do not quarrel with them; if they are fools, ignore them.

What, for instance, does it mean to be insulted? [29] Stand by a rock and insult it, and what have you accomplished? If someone responds to insult like a rock, what has the abuser gained with his invective? If, however, he has his victim's weakness to exploit, then his efforts are worth his while.

I have learned to see that whatever comes about is nothing to me if it lies beyond the sphere of choice.

understand that every event is indifferent and nothing to you, of whatever sort it may be; for it will be in your power to make a right use of it, and this no one can hinder.

No one has power over our principles, and what other people do control we don't care about.

I think that the word bored does not get the attention it deserves. We speak of all sorts of terrible things that happen to people, but we rarely speak about one of the most terrible things of all : that is, being bored, being bored alone and, worse than that, being bored together.

We have been compelled to recognize that millions in Germany were as eager to surrender their freedom as their fathers were to fight for it; that instead of wanting freedom, they sought for ways of escape from it; that other millions were indifferent and did not believe the defense of freedom to be worth fighting and dying for.

Nobles who threw away All For Love remained the deluded exception, for as the wits put it 'Love in a cottage? … Give me indifference and a coach and six.' 8

Property, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

On les écouta, on compatit, on s'indigna, on promit, mais on ne bougea pas une lance

The truth is rarely buried; it is merely lying in wait behind veils of modesty, pain, or indifference; the one necessary prerequisite is a passionate desire to lift the veils.