Quotes About Indifference

The once terrible was now commonplace, meaning that people accepted it as the norm and went on living, instead of getting needlessly agitated.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say 'so what'. That's one of my favorite things to say.

A calamity, a catastrophe- it changes everything, doesn't it? It makes you aware that you cannot be indifferent toward your life. You cannot simply give away your life.

He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.

Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.

I was abandoned when it was right in everybody's face, so I still believe that nobody cares.

four E's on my report card this term and he didn't even care.

ADIAPHORY  (ADIA'PHORY)   n.s.[Gr.]Neutrality; indifference.

Toleration is a herb of spontaneous growth in the Soil of Indifference; but the weed has none of the virtues of the medicinal plant, reared by Humility in the Garden of Zeal.

Then we all sat around; we were supposed to be awed. I was brattishly unawed.

Ellis had slept through the entire thing. That, or he was dead, but I saw no reason to check. If he was dead, he'd still be dead in the morning.

Fine, he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.

Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries.

Was it really this easy, once you escaped, to just not care?

on fading passion) Sex was like the can of baking powder she kept on a high shelf in her pantry, something she didn't need right now but that she knew she could get her hands on without too much trouble.

In New York, when a tree dies, nobody mourns that it was cut down in its prime. Nobody counts the rings, notifies the loved ones. There are other trees. We can always squeeze in one more. Mind the tourists. It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't wanna live there.

In America, on the ordinate plane of faith versus reason, the x-axis of faith intersects with the y-axis of reason at the zero point of I don't give a damn what you think.

That was nothing to get excited about, as it was one of the commoner human experiences—neither to give a damn nor be given a damn about.

The most effective way to stop people from trying to persuade me is to say, 'I'm not interested.' You should try it. Don't offer a reason why you aren't interested. No one can say why a thing holds interest for some and not for others. There's no argument against a lack of interest.

Fate didn't care a squick about what anybody was meant to do.

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it unfriendly. It is simply indifferent.

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.

I have come to the feeling about television the way I do about hamburgers: I eat a lot of hamburgers and I don't remember a single one of them.