Quotes About Indifference

Thank you very much," said I cold-bloodedly, left the book, which had been most absolutely widely distributed because it had unconditionally to have been read, as I chose, where it was, and softly withdrew, without wasting another word. "Uncultivated and ignorant man!" shouted the bookseller after me, for he was most justifiably and deeply vexed.

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

You are one of the few successful persons I know. Me? Why? You know precisely what you are doing and you do it well. But I don't really do much of anything. And of course the quantity means nothing to you, nor the weight others place upon your actions. In my eyes, that makes you a success. By not giving a damn? But I do, you know. Of course you do, of course you do! But it is a matter of style, an awareness of choice—

things sort of equal to equal things sort of being equal to each other, it didn't much seem to matter.

Look at that crowd', he said disgustedly. 'They think it's a circus.' 'And not a single coin are they donating', said Dina. 'That's not surprising. Pity can only be shown in small doses. When so many beggars are in one place, the public goes like this' - he put his fists to his eyes, like binoculars.

It exists only for me. For you, it would be nothing but an indifferent picture.

Keeping up the pose of indifference must have taken its own toll.

and no real warmth existed between the two

The guy who was standing said, "We don't want you here." Reacher said, "You're confusing me with someone who gives a shit what you want.

Reacher liked New York more than most places. He liked the casual indifference of it all and the frantic hustle and the total anonymity.

He smiled and gave me the What can you do? shrug again and picked up his phone.

An image comes to Russell: we drift through the world like dandelion puffs on the wind, we spread our seed and disappear, and the world doesn't care. The world doesn't even notice. The world is not about us. Finally

You are no failure, on a river. The water moves regardless - for all it cares, you might be a minnow or a tadpole, a turtle on a beavered log. You might be nothing at all.

Before we pass judgment on the Germans let me say that I have never found an American who has expressed personal guilt over the fact that we destroyed a people and their civilization in brutal indifference to gain the North American continent.

Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care

Gleichgültigkeit! Gleichgültigkeit an die Stelle der Liebe? - Das heißt, Nichts an die Stelle von Etwas.

Por lo general, son caras ante las que pasamos sin darnos cuenta.

Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and then forgotten in a week's time.

Yes, after all, if I were to join you, I might enjoy myself, and wouldn't that be a shame? Please, don't spare me another thought.

El viento lo observa todo con indiferencia. Al fin y al cabo, no es más que el viento.

A Evie le daba igual que le gritaran, pero odiaba sentirse juzgada. La irritaba, y hacía que se sintiera pequeña, fea y sin arreglo.

Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it.

The French have coined a phrase for their slipshod indifference, their way of letting things take care of themselves. They call it "je-m'en-foutisme," an attitude toward life that may be somewhat inadequately translated as "I-don't-give-a-damnism.

We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence.