Quotes About Indifference

I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.

Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it.

Even the heart in time may grow cold.

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.

Oh, I steal things all the time. It's just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago.

Francamente me ne infischio

My dear, I don't give a damn.

Miss O'Hara - I must tell you something. I - I love you!' 'Um?' said Scarlett absently.

When you've been talked about as much as I have, you'll realize how little it matters.

But why bother? So cold. A woman's life dismissed in three words.

A chicken with its neck wrung is different from a chicken with its head cut off, but does it matter to the chicken?

Rule the world, Raistlin repeated softly, his eyes burning. Rule the world? You still don't undestand, do you, my dear sister? Let me make this as plain as I know how. Now it was his turn to stand up. Pressing his thin hands upon the desk, he leaned towards her, like a snake. I don't give damn about the world! he said softly. I could rule it tomorrow, if I wanted it! I don't.

En Vauville, el recuerdo del canto de la mendiga vuelve a mí. Ese canto tan simple. El de los locos, de todos los locos, por todas partes, los de la indiferencia. El de la muerte fácil. Los de la muerte por obra del hambre, la de los muertos de los caminos, de las fosas, medio devorados por los perros, los tigres, las aves de presa, las ratas gigantes de los pantanos.

They are neither happy nor unhappy. Their union is constructed upon indifference, in a way which is general and which they apprehend moment by moment, a union from which all preference is excluded. They are together, two trains which meet and pass, around them the landscape, sensuous and lushly green, is the same, they see it, they are not alone.

Avrei assistito al mutarsi della passione in amicizia, come pretendono i moralisti, oppure in indifferenza, il che è più frequente.

It was an interesting lesson in power. The only time you truly have it is when you genuinely don't care whether you have it or not.

My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground with a bullet in his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I don't even need to shrug. I simply don't care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his shames and yearnings were, simply don't matter.

Nothing can account for the reductionist tendencies among neuroscientists except a lack of rigor and consistency, a loyalty to conclusions that are prior to evidence and argument, and an indifference to science as a whole.

No les guardo rencor, estoy acostumbrado a la incomprensión de la gente. ¡Hasta siempre, señores!

they're weak, petty, so apathetic about this gift of life as if it were all a mere Pepsi commercial.

He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.

The new trash who'd suddenly come into money and liked to rub your nose into it? They didn't care. They didn't notice. Until one of their own goes ill. Then it's a sodding emergency. Some privileged prat starts feeling poorly and then it's call out the Marines, start looking for someone to blame

I was relieved to find her attitude to myself suggested nothing more hostile than complete indifference.

I wondered whether I wanted to hear more. The Jean business was long over, but even when you have ceased to love someone, that does not necessarily bring an indifference to a past shared together. Besides, though love may die, vanity lives on timelessly. I knew that I must be prepared to hear things I should not like. Yet, although where unfaithfulness reigns, ignorance may be preferable to knowledge, at the same time, once knowledge is brutally born, exactitude is preferable to uncertainty.