Quotes About Indifference

I was so competitive, I wanted to win games but... I lost 13 games in my first three years in college. I lost 13 games in my first month in the league and it felt like nobody cared. So, eventually halfway through the season, I'm like 'well, why the hell do I care?' If they don't care, why do I care.

I never want to be in the UFC Hall of Fame.

As every so-called creative spirit soon learns, the rest of the world doesn't particularly give a damn.

None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom or indifference over his inward joy.

Celui-là ne sera jamais Parisien qui n'aura point appris à mettre un masque de joie sur ses douleurs et le « loup » de la tristesse, de l'ennui ou de l'indifférence sur son intime allégresse.

No one will ever be a Parisian without learning to put a mask of joy over his sorrows and a mask of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inner joy. . . Parisians are always at a masked ball . . .

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

PICKERING [in good-humored remonstrance] Does it occur to you, Higgins, that the girl has some feelings? HIGGINS [looking critically at her] Oh no, I don't think so. Not any feelings that we need bother about. [Cheerily] Have you, Eliza? LIZA. I got my feelings same as anyone else.

It's important in life if you don't give a shit. It can help you a lot.

I figured out years ago that the human species is totally fucked and has been for a long time. I also know that the sick, media-consumer culture in America continues to make this so-called problem worse. But the trick, folks, is not to give a fuck. Like me. I really don't care. I stopped worrying about all this temporal bullshit a long time ago. It's meaningless.

I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

In bitter manuscript remarks on other men's notions about solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight.

For getting a fine flourishing growth of stupidity there is nothing like pouring out on a mind a good amount of subjects in which it feels no interest.

i am always bored. (gwendolen harleth)

Explain my preference! I never had a preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.

Chiunque osservi con attenzione la convergenza furtiva dei destini umani, scorge una lenta preparazione di effetti che una vita esercita su un'altra, che ha l'effetto di una calcolata ironia sull'indifferenza o sullo sguardo gelido con cui guardiamo il nostro vicino non ancora conosciuto. Il Destino sta in attesa, sarcastico, tenendo i nostri dramatis personae stretti in pugno.

There is no more to be said. Things cannot be altered, and who cares? It makes no difference to any one else what we do. We must try not to care ourselves. We must not give way. I dread giving way. Help me to he quiet.

You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.

I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.

Threats mean nothing to me.