Quotes About Indifference

The ocean makes you feel like the world is greeting you with a soft, wet, welcoming indifference. It's never going to argue back, no matter how loud you yell.

Twitter makes you feel that the whole world is obsessed with you and your little ego-- it loves you, it hates you, it's talking about you right now. The ocean makes you feel like the world is greeting you with a soft, wet, welcoming indifference. It's never going to argue back, no matter how loud you yell.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

I get bored easily. I've been bored most of my life.

I don't actually care what you think, so it's perfectly okay.

If there's one thing I really distinguish in myself, it's my unlimited ability for getting tired of everything.

I was talking about Cady's hair," says Bonnie. "You don't have to tell her she looks dead." "It's okay," I tell Bonnie. "I don't actually care what you think, so it's perfectly okay.

I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there.

Most of the inhabitants of India do not mind how India is governed. Nor are the lower animals of England concerned about England, but in the tropics the indifference is more prominent, the inarticulate world is closer at hand and readier to resume control as soon as men are tired.

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.

It matter so little to the majority of living beings what the minority, that calls itself human, desires or decides.

Being clever they did not care for animals. One man had never seen a hedgehog. ~from The Longest Journey

They knew that Jamaica produced sugar, rum and bananas, that Nigeria produced cocoa, and that British Guiana had large natural resources; but these names, though as familiar as the products with which they were associated, were of places far away, and no one seemed really interested in knowing anything about the peoples who lived there or their struggles towards political and economic betterment.

I got over my wave of giving a shit and then regained my senses.

The lynched relative; the buried son or daughter killed at the hands of the police; the millions locked away to rot in prisons; the children languishing in failed schools; the smothering, concentrated poverty passed down from generation to generation; and the indifference to lives lived in the shadows of the American dream are generally understood as exceptions to the American story, not the rule. Blasphemous facts must be banished from view by a host of public rituals and incantations.

Jared couldn't follow the twists of this and didn't really care. "Do you mind if I hit the shower?

It doesn't matter, because it just doesn't matter.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

I soon discovered that they were absorbed in a silly kind of amorous correspondence with the girls of a neighbouring academy, but " what were all such toys to me?

Better a thousand times err on the side of over-readiness to fight, than to err on the side of tame submission to injury, or cold-blooded indifference to the misery of the oppressed.