Indifference Quotes

586 quotes by 445 authors

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word. — Charlaine Harris
Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil… — William Sloane Coffin
I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its… — Jean Rhys
You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know.… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and… — Edmund Burke
A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference. — Ian Fleming
She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be… — Jane Austen
Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other. — Elie Wiesel
But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse… — William Congreve
He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe — Albert Camus
Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge. — Karl Lagerfeld
I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign… — Albert Camus
This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of… — Michel Houellebecq
We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans. — Sherwood Smith
No matter how interminable something feels, there is always, always an ending. Sometimes that's good, and sometimes it's bad; sometimes it's a matter of indifference,… — Ann Aguirre
There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim… — Katherine Dunn
...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could… — Gustave Flaubert
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain… — Joan Didion

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