Quotes About Indifference

She just eyed them coolly, as if they were nothing to her, as if their nothingness surprised and slightly repelled her.

We shower money on generals and on nobles, we keep high-born paupers living on the national charity, we squander wealth with both hands on army and navy, on churches and palaces; but we grudge every halfpenny that increases the education rate and howl down every proposal to build decent houses for the poor. We cover our heartlessness and indifference with fine phrases about sapping the independence of the poor and destroying their self-respect.

One week later Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. By then I had lost interest in that sort of thing.

en realidad a todo el mundo le daba igual cómo se viviría dentro de cuarenta años, solo querían llegar vivos.

One time, someone came up to me and said, 'I know so-and-so. They're a professor at Harvard. They're a big fan of your work.' But that doesn't impress me more than any other people feeling that way.

There's Jay-Z, who morphs a certain street hustler's cool and indifference into CEO extravagance. But for all his prominence, Jay-Z hasn't written a lot of crossover hits.

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

Why should you feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

he was usually preposterous yet somehow achieved a certain dignity by his remoteness and agelessness; he was still half-child, already half-veteran; there seemed no spark of contemporary life in him; he had a kind of massive rectitude and impermeability, an indifference to the world, which compelled respect.

Well, there I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care.

I don't give a damn about you now, but it was a new experience for me and I felt a little dizzy for a while.

They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made....

They were so sorry, dear; they went down to meet each other in a taxi, honey; they had preferences in smiles and had met in Hindustan, and shortly afterward they must have quarrelled, for nobody knew and nobody seemed to care - yet finally one of them had gone and left the other crying, only to feel blue, to feel sad.

In the foreground four solemn men in dress suits are walking along the sidewalk with a stretcher on which lies a drunken woman in a white evening dress. Her hand, which dangles over the side, sparkles cold with jewels. Gravely the men turn in at a house - the wrong house. But no one knows the woman's name, and no one cares.

founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from

I don't mind if they don't do anything. I don't see why they should; in fact it always astonishes me when anybody does anything.

Well, there I was, 'way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care.

I never care what I do, so I always have a good time.

My boredom with everything has numbed me.

I've always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like all orphans—to be the object of someone's affection. This need has always been a hunger that went unsatisfied, and so thoroughly have I adapted to this inevitable hunger that I sometimes wonder if I really feel the need to eat. Whatever be the case, life pains me.

Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.

Pouco me importa. Pouco me importa o quê? Não sei: pouco me importa.