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Quotes About Indifference

Vicente Guedes endured his empty life with masterly indifference, the foundations of his mental attitude being built on the stoicism of the weak.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I write my literature as I write my ledger entries-carefully and indifferently. Next to the vast starry sky and the enigma of so many souls, the night of the unknown abyss and the chaos of nothing make sense-next to all this, what I write in the ledger and what I write on this paper that tells my soul are equally confined to the Rua dos Douradores, woefully little in the face of the universe's millionaire expanses.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Envidio —pero no sé si envidio de veras— a aquéllos de quienes se puede escribir una biografía, o que pueden escribir su propia biografía. En estas expresiones sin continuidad ni deseo alguno de continuidad, narro con indiferencia mi autobiografía sin hechos, mi historia sin vida. Son mis Confesiones, y si en ellas nada digo, es que nada tengo que decir.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Há tres maneiras de ser situacionista, isto é, de ser partidario de qualquer situação política. A primeira é a conformidade por dotrina; a segunda a conformidade por aceitação; a terceira a conformidade por não-oposição. Deixo de parte uma das mais vulgares - a conformidade por vantagem [...]. A conformidade por indiferença vale por adesão por só não ser hostilização.
~ Fernando Pessoa
As guerras e as revoluções — há sempre uma ou outra em curso — chegam, na leitura dos seus efeitos, a causar não horror mas tédio.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Never to feel one's feelings wholeheartedly and then to elevate that wan victory to the point of being able to regard one's own ambitions, longings and desires with indifference; to pass by one's joys and griefs as one would a person in whom one feels no interest.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The world belongs to the unfeeling. The essential condition for being a practical man is the absence of any sensitivity
~ Fernando Pessoa
il Destino è una specie di persona, e smette di tormentarci se ci mostriamo indifferenti a quello che ci fa.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care.
~ Flannery O'Connor
You may not see me again,' he said, '- the way I am.' 'Any way I don't see you will be all right with me,' she said.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Mr. Shiftlet said that the trouble with the world was that nobody cared, or stopped and took any trouble.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Madame Bovary Konversasjonen var platt som et fortau. Der promenerte de mest banale av tanker, i hverdagsklær og uten å vekke følelser, latter eller drømmer.
~ Flaubert Gustave
I would have liked to play in New York and be close to my family and friends, but since there is nothing I can do about it, I really don't care where I go.
~ Chris Mullin
I'm not a fan of baseball really.
~ Andrew Bogut
I'm quite confident, but I don't fancy myself. I don't really care about how I look.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
It's important for me to let my fans know I really don't care. I'm confident.
~ Drake
The fans really have never concerned me.
~ Goldust
Television does not fascinate me.
~ Deepti Naval
Boredom is not a thing. It's not a feeling or a condition. It is the absence of feelings, things and conditions.
~ A. A. Gill
In truth, I don't care about making feminism more accessible to anyone.
~ Roxane Gay
I do not care where I fight.
~ Oleksandr Usyk
I've never been the biggest boxing fan. If I know the guy I will watch him. But if it's two great fighters and I don't know either of them then I won't bother.
~ George Groves
I took some fights where I didn't care if I won or lost.
~ Julio Cesar Chavez Sr.
I've figured out over the years, you can only hurt me if I love you; if I don't know you, I really don't care.
~ Conchita Wurst