Indifference Quotes

In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths peacefully coexist in indifference.

The settled man can cope with love and hate from others, but never with their indifference.

The enemies inside us: Indifference, Indecision, Doubt, Worry, and Over-caution.

Indifference is the acid of life. It erodes all the spirit that's in us and makes us useless to anyone else. We all have to stand for something, or our souls cease to breathe.

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

She commands who is blest with indifference.

Love, if you love me, lie next to me. Be for me, like rain, the getting out of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi- lust of intentional indifference. Be wet with a decent happiness.

Refined indifference is a sports psychology precept: train like there's no tomorrow and then accept whatever happens. Once you step on the field realize that whatever is meant to be is meant to be.

Poise and indifference so often look the same.

The tragedy of love is indifference.

I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.

Love may turn to indifference with possession.

I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place down. I never expected indifference.

The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.

Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.

There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.

Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?

If we knew how much He loves us, we should be always ready to receive equally and with indifference from His hand the sweet and the bitter; all would please that came from Him.

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.

One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.

Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.

Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.

'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.

It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference

In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the worst enemy, the worst peril, is indifference.

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.

I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.

The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.

fear cannot exist when one is indifferent to life.

Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.

Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six!

Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of it, and at last the indifference because any one would.

A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.

I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.

The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.

Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

Look to the end; and resolve to make the service of Christ the first object in what remains of life, without indifference to the opinion of your fellow men, but also without fear of it.

Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.

Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike ...We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too long, and we are now reaping our reward.