Indifference Quotes

The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference to him and his dreams.

Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet

Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.

The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference.

And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.

We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century

Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea Of grass that waves around thee!

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.

Indifference was our greatest enemy.

It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.

But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.

Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.

A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism, and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk of becoming a journalist.

He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.

Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.

For watching death, and above all, after death; not death in battle, but death after battle, brings one to certain indifferences that are also a form of death.

people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.

Hatred is so much closer to love than indifference.

Indifference creates an artificial peace.

I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.

If you are not willing to take the shame on yourself, you then let it remain on Jesus Christ. You must bear the reproach of your sinful state of indifference, or the cause of our Master must bear it.

Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets.

Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.

Indifference is dangerous, whether innocent or not.

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

The breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

Indifference breeds animosity.

Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.

Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.

She wondered what she thought of herself, and came to the realization that she felt mostly indifference towards her entire life.

One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.

nothing makes one so easily a fatalist as indifference.

So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.

In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.

Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that you listen to the horrid tales of the Bible, or hear them with callous indifference?

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.

Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.

Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.

Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.

The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.

He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.

I can see wherecreation oftenstops while thebody still livesand oftendoes not careto.the death of lifebefore lifedies.

What makes life dreary is want of motive.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

Once conform once do what others do because they do it and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair but to he who does not concern us at all.