Quotes About Indifference

I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired.

I liked him first, but it doesn't matter. I still like him. That doesn't matter either. Or at least, it's not supposed to.

I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired. I walk through school and all I want to do is leave. I wake up in the morning and don't know why I'm here. I feel like I'm not real.

Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die." Kate to Will

I didn't feel anything watching him go. I didn't even wish I did.

I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired. I walk through school and all I want to do is leave. I wake up in the morning and don't know why I'm here. I feel like I'm not real. I feel like I died when everyone else on the plane did and I'm the only one who's noticed.

I want to care, but I don't.

He had long been indifferent to which side won; he wished only that one or the other would do so decisively while he was still alive.

She could make the bed, do the laundry, feed the dog. But she could not be bothered with any more meals. "What'll we have for supper?" Henry would ask, coming upstairs from the basement. "Strawberries.

Above all, he seems to have taken from Socrates the notion that man's freedom depends completely on the state of our soul, not on some physical or material condition; and on our capacity to endure adversity and to be indifferent to our outward fate.

Seneca's solution to life's inevitable cruelties was to withdraw. It was an increasingly attractive reaction in the later imperial age. The wise man must shun unnecessary human contact and connections, Seneca said. He must live within, and for, himself. He must cultivate the virtue of apatheia, literally an indifference to the fate of others—apathy even, in the last moment, to his own fate (faced by unjust accusations by the emperor Nero, Seneca and his wife chose suicide).

Beginning with their founder, Zeno, the Stoics taught that the key to the happy life is adhering to a strict sense of virtue and a rigid duty toward others rather than indulging in pleasure, and a renunciation of, or at least an indifference to, all worldly goods.

Plezier, ze ze, kan een mens alleen beleven aan iets wat hem weinig interesseert.

Most of us are just indifferent, mixed-up creatures; we muddle through the world without realizing the meaning and the inner sense of things, and, consequently, our wickedness and our goodness are alike second-rate, unimportant.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.

Why is it that, today, the masses are so utterly unconcerned about spiritual and eternal things, and that they are lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God? Why is it that, even on the battlefields, multitudes were so indifferent to their soul's welfare? Why is it that defiance of heaven is becoming more open, more blatant, more daring? The answer is, Because "There is no fear of God before their eyes" (Rom 3:18).

Creo que en el mundo de hoy la única libertad posible es la indiferencia. Por eso seguiré viviendo con mi sable y mi caballo.

Lejanas, frías en lo alto, las estrellas parpadeaban indiferentes. Estaban acostumbradas a que los hombres se mataran entre sí.

Todavía me observó, pensativa, y luego se puso en pie para buscar en uno de los estantes. Mientras lo hacía, el perro —era una perra— se alzó sobre sus patas, me dio una vuelta alrededor y volvió a tumbarse con indiferencia en el mismo sitio que antes.

Anda y que te den por culo. —Hoy ya no tengo tiempo, galán.

Tengo planes más atractivos: mujeres, cigarrillos, restaurantes. Cosas así. De modo que, puestos a ello, es mejor que mueran otros. Entonces

Apatía y resignación, son las palabras nacionales

el truco en el oficio de las armas es aceptar que ya estás muerto. Asumirlo con indiferencia.

Abajo hay miedo, sufrimiento y muerte. Hay guerra. Y todo parece ser tan normal que podríamos olvidarlo. Así es nuestro mundo. Todo parece ser normal, a pesar de que se están cometiendo crímenes todos los días, en grande o pequeña escala, junto a nosotros, en medio de nosotros o por medio de nosotros.