Quotes About Indifference

The dead center of existence: when it is all the same to you whether you read a newspaper article or think about God.

R?ul, p?r?sind indiferen?a originar?, ?i-a luat Timpul ca pseudonim.

M-am gândit iar??i c? în unele ??ri din America Latin? se spune despre cel r?posat de curând: «a devenit indiferent».

Plus les hommes me sont indifférents, plus ils me troublent; et quand je les méprise, je ne puis les approcher sans bégayer.

Refuzul divin al p?mântului pleac? dintr-o nemângâiere sfâÅŸietoare, pe care o putem îndulci cu o acceptare disperat? a lumii. Din moment ce-mi este interzis? gloria cereasc?, trebuie s?-mi fie indiferent c? aici, jos, voi ajunge ministru sau paznic de bordel.

Cu cît oamenii te intereseazå mai putin, cu atît devii mai timid în fata lor, iar cînd ajungi sa-i dispretuiesti, începi sa te bîlbîi.

Le dernier pas vers l'indifférence est la destruction de l'idée même d'indifférence.Emil

El sufrimiento de los demás tiene sobre mí un efecto directo. Pero, si mañana desapareciera la humanidad, me daría igual.

Stoicism for show: to be an enthusiast of nil admirari, an hysteric of ataraxia.

And if Indifference fills him to overflowing, if he makes it into a reality as vast as the universe itself, it is because Indifference is the practical equivalent of doubt, and in his eyes does doubt not have the prestige of the Unconditioned?

She meant absolutely nothing to me. Realizing, suddenly, after so many years, that whatever happens i shall never see her again, I nearly collapsed. We understand what death is only by suddenly remembering the face of someone who has been a matter of indifference to us.

Toplum - bir kurtar?c?lar cehennemi! Diogenes'in elinde lambas?yla arad???, ilgisiz biriydi.

Ä°çgüdüsel olarak putlara tapt???m?zdan, düÅŸlerimizin ve ç?karlar?m?z?n nesnelerini kay?ts?z ÅŸarts?z ÅŸeyler haline getiririz.

I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity

We understand what death is only by suddenly remembering the face of someone who has been a matter of indifference to us.

Man interests me only since he has ceased to believe in himself. Wile he was in his ascending phase, he deserved no more than indifference. Now he provokes a new sentiment, a special sympathy: compassionate horror.

There exists an undeniable pleasure in knowing that everything you do has no real basis, that whether or not you commit an action is a matter of indifference. The fact nonetheless remains that in our daily gestures we compromise with Vacuity - that is, we turn and turn about, and occasionally, at the same time, we take the world as real and unreal. We mingle pure truth and sordid truths and this amalgam, the thinker's disgrace, is the living man's revenge.

All men see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy? For the indifferent, to whom nature offers an insipid and cold objectivity, life even when fully enjoyed is a sum of missed opportunities. — Emil M. Cioran, On the Heights of Despair . (University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition October 1, 1996) Originally published 1933.

The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care

Prefiero ser odiado que amado con tibieza»

A nation of unimpressible philosophers would not care at all how the externals of life were managed. Who is the showman is not material unless you care about the show.

Time is just common, it's like water for a fish. Everybody's in this water, nobody gets out of it, or if he does the same thing happens to him that happens to the fish, he dies. And you know what happens in this water, time? The big fish eat the little fish. That's all. The big fish eat the little fish and the ocean doesn't care.

If people I don't care for are attracted to me, I accept it as the wages of beauty.

I do not know that it would be a good thing for any public speaker ever to approach the emergent hour with entire assurance and utterly calloused nerves. Such a condition might well bespeak an indifference to the work in hand which would result either in a purely mechanical delivery, or one so careless as to destroy the effect of the lecturer's most valuable asset -- a sympathetic personality.