Quotes About Indifference

our hearts bleed because we hear of a beached whale while the next minute we're baying for the blood of someone who stole the last shopping trolley.

The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

What are you smiling about? I simply asked a question. I don't care, I'm just curious."- Sesshomaru

My lips are overdrawn to compensate for my lack of not giving a shit

Cold weather doesn't care if your coat is old or new.

It's easy to rob a greedy man, because he deserves to be robbed; it's easy to rob a rich man, because he can afford to be robbed; but it's difficult to rob a poor man, even one who really doesn't care if he's robbed

Apathy, or lethargy, or a combination of the two, soon casts a spell over everything and the most traumatic events are quickly forgotten.

I used to think that after the war I would have something of interest and significance to tell. A contribution. But people didn't want to hear about it, or if they did listen, it was in a certain pose, an attitude assumed for this special occasion; it was not a partners in a conversation, but as if I had imposed on them and they were graciously indulging me.

No relatives, no friends, nobody. Doesn't that seem strange to you? Someone disappears and no one gives a damn?

Progress! Progress through everybody dying and their kids eventually not caring who their parents hated!

He ate off dirty plates and was unfazed. His pillowcase was soiled and stank, but he never thought of changing it. Hamid thought long and hard, but he couldn't understand him. He often asked, 'Babuji, why aren't you revolted by dirtiness?

Een dovemansgesprek dat maakte dat ik mijn toevlucht weer zocht in mijn innerlijke monoloog. Het maakt hem geen moer uit hoe ik er aan toe ben. Ik kan bloed verliezen tot ik crepeer, ik kan het uitschreeuwen van de pijn, hij zal door blijven gaan.

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

And why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice!

Give yourself a gift: the present moment. People out for posthumous fame forget that the Generations To Come will be the same annoying people they know now. And just as mortal. What does it matter to you if they say x about you, or think y?

But death certainly, and life, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, all these things equally happen to good men and bad, being things which make us neither better nor worse. Therefore they are neither good nor evil.

Inquire of yourself as soon as you wake from sleep, whether it will make any difference to you, if another does what is just and right. It will make no difference.

Another does wrong. What is that to me? Let him look to it; he has his own disposition, his own activity. I have now what Universal Nature wills me to have, and I do what my own nature wills me to do.

Indifference to external events. And a commitment to justice in your own acts. Which means: thought and action resulting in the common good. What you were born to do.

So must a good ear, and a good smell be ready for whatsoever is either to be heard, or smelt: and a good stomach as indifferent to all kinds of food, as a millstone is, to whatsoever she was made for to grind. As ready therefore must a sound understanding be for whatsoever shall happen. But he that saith, O that my children might live! and, O that all men might commend me for whatsoever I do! is an eye that seeks after green things; or as teeth, after that which is tender.

To live a good life: We have the potential for it. If we learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.

To live a good life: We have the potential for it. If we can learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.

16. To live a good life: We have the potential for it. If we can learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.

44. Give yourself a gift: the present moment. People out for posthumous fame forget that the Generations To Come will be the same annoying people they know now. And just as mortal. What does it matter to you if they say x about you, or think y?