Quotes About Insensitivity

La sensibilidad al dolor no tiene nada que ver con entender

I couldn't give a rat's tutu about your emotional distress

Ignore me? Okay that's cool, just don't be mad when I ignore you.

indifference is fragile armour. — Manuel Ulacia (1953-2001), from "The Stone at the Bottom." Poetry in Translation (archived) Translated by Sarah Lawson.

Can I just wrap up this whole line of conversation by saying I really don't give a shit whether you're upset? If you were actually hurt, or dead, then I'd say sorry. But you're not, so suck it up.

His body was as insensitive to pain as was his mind to subtleties.

I apologize for the insensitivity of my remarks with respect to the mayor or his family, however I think it is important to note that this decision involves potential risk to innocent people.

Let them eat cake.

cares nothing for others

Feeling must have rendered her numb.

comprehending little and caring less.

You can't hurt someone who doesn't care about you.

Strange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often.

He never bothered listening to sports; the bored him, every one of them.

This cultural hubris, or overweening presumption about what we are entitled to from a universe that is basically insensitive to human needs, generally leads to trouble. The unwarranted sense of security sooner or later results in a rude awakening. When people start believing that progress is inevitable and life easy, they may quickly lose courage and determination in the face of the first signs of adversity.

Beyond the worries about direct threats lay the fear that religious groups, bureaucrats, left-wing politicians and newspapers would accuse critics of insensitivity or racism, and that racist groups or websites would confirm the accusation by repeating their critiques.

Were we all, the whole upper crust of Russian society, so totally insensitive, so horribly obtuse, as not to feel that the charmed life that we were leading was in itself an injustice and hence could not possibly last?

People can certainly be beastly about the things that affect them least, can't they?

the way they make you fell does not mater

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

It will be recorded that the dead in the first decade of the calamity died of our indifference.

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.