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Quotes About Indifference

The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
~ Elie Wiesel
The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference
~ Elie Wiesel
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Do I look like the kind of person who gives a ****
~ Jillian Michaels
Things Isabella Wouldn't Care About: - Titanic sinking again. - Metror striking Earth and landing directly on top of world's most innocent panda. - Titanic sinking again and this time the entire crew is puppies.
~ Jim Benton
If Jimmy indeed cracked corn and you truly didn't care, why the fuck did you write a song about it? I call bullshit.
~ Jim Goad
I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
~ Jimmy Wales
What I mean is, when I look at other people, other girls in school, and see what they like and what they're happy with and what they want, I don't feel as if I'm a part of their species. And sometimes--sometimes I don't care.
~ Jo Walton
But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power.
~ Joan D. Vinge
Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.
~ Joan D. Vinge
Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power.
~ Joan D. Vinge
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
~ Joan Didion
He knew it. He just didn't care, and a man who'd stopped caring was dangerous as fuck.
~ Joanna Wylde
He glanced over to the stage, where a nearly naked woman gyrated lifelessly around the pole. She could've been cleaning toilets for all the enthusiasm she showed.
~ Joanna Wylde
The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.
~ Joanne Harris
No pido perdón, ¿para qué? si me va a perdonar porque ya no le importa…
~ Joaquín Sabina
Goldman Sachs doesn't care if you raise chickens.
~ Jodi Dean
Such is the lot of the narcissist's child, to inherit her parent's umbrage over the world's indifference.
~ Ann Packer
what yesterday affected us strongly, is to-day but imperfectly felt, and to-morrow perhaps shall be disregarded.
~ Ann Radcliffe
The last time she had seen him in the flesh, all the vital force of his life stripped away, his sharpened face had confronted her with such a fearful fixed finality of sightless indifference that she had been frozen in mortal terror, engulfed by abysmal despair. After all the years of unfailing support, his huge, inhuman, deaf, blind inaccessibility was horrifying. He had not kept his promise. He had abandoned her, left her to suffer alone.
~ Anna Kavan
How intimately I experience in my heart just what he must have felt in all of those unknown rooms, some of them poor, perhaps, and some splendid, but all opposing him with the cold fearful indifference of other people's belongings, against which he has to defend himself as best he can with his poor lonely trunk and his case of books.
~ Anna Kavan
Don't you like the sea any more?' she asked. [...] 'No,' said the man. 'I don't think so. I think I hate it.' But then, feeling the hollow, vague coldness inside the glass, and going away from the sea, there was nothing at all left and nothing mattered at all. 'I don't feel anything about it,' he said. 'I don't feel anything about anything.
~ Anna Kavan
Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated: Your gown is insipid and entirely forgettable. If you wear it on every other occasion this entire season, no one will notice or care.
~ Anne Perry