Indifferent To Suffering Quotes

#1. Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

Walter Kaufmann

#2. It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

Robert Lynd

#3. Who can enjoy enlightenment and remain indifferent to suffering in the world? This is not in keeping with the Way. Only those who increase their service along with their understanding can be called men and women of Tao.

Laozi

#4. Though she would never admit it to polite Society, Lady Georgette Thorold hated brandy almost as much as she hated husbands. So it was the cruelest of jokes when she awoke with nary a clue to her surroundings, smelling like one and pressed up against the other.

Jennifer McQuiston

#5. Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.

Fay Weldon

#7. A woman has to have something on or there's nothing to take off.

Charles Bukowski

#8. The readiness to blame a dead pilot for an accident is nauseating, but it has been the tendency ever since I can remember. What pilot has not been in positions where he was in danger and
where perfect judgment would have advised against going?

Charles Lindbergh

#9. The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination.

Doug Casey

#10. Because I feared I couldn't walk to Newton Centre without her, I needed to hike through desert, snow and woods alone.

Childhood is a wilderness.

Aspen Matis

#11. The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.

Galileo Galilei

#12. Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.

Blaise Pascal

#13. Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.

Gay Talese

#14. To BE or not to BE depends on what you BElieve. If you BElieve you BElong, then that is how you will BEhave! BE-cause that is what you BE and have. So help others BEhave by helping them to BElieve they BElong. And then, everyone can always say they BE-LIVED!

Jack A. Langedijk

#15. Neil sucked in a deep breath that ripped him open on its way down. "I'd ask you how it feels, but I guess you've always known what it's like to be second, you worthless piece of shit.

Nora Sakavic

#16. All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body suffers pain, then the whole body is affected. If you are indifferent to this pain, you cannot be called a human being.

Saadi

#17. [In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

Jonah Goldberg

#18. And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous, irresponsible, but to have that passion, the intensity, the energy that freedom brings, freedom from suffering.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#19. Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Richard Dawkins

#20. Most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.

Gabrielle Zevin

#21. Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

Richard Levins

#22. My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.

Steven Wright

#23. The physical world - the world of stone and brick - is indifferent to our suffering, to our dramas, she thought. Even a battlefield can be peaceful, can be a place for flowers to grow, for children to play; the memories, the sadness, are within us, not part of the world about us.

Alexander McCall Smith

#24. A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering ... The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.

Elie Wiesel

#25. He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.

Saadi

#26. We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy, or suffering, it seems as if he must belong to some other universe, he is imbued with poetry.

Marcel Proust

#27. You sure have a high opinion of yourself, thinking it's going to happen again.

Richelle Mead

#28. It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering

Cornel West

#29. The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so.

Mahnaz Afkhami

#30. We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes - one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way.

Stephen Jay Gould

#31. Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.

Yann Martel

#32. But loving Tristan often felt like loving something once removed. He could be cold and indifferent to others' suffering, especially if he was causing it.

Tod Wodicka

#33. We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

Jose Marti

#34. What I love most about nature is how indifferent it is to us humans and human suffering. While we are here with our little or big tragedies - the wind is blowing, the leaves are rustling in the trees, the flowers bloom, and die - there's a great comfort in that indifference,

Valzhyna Mort

#35. I talked to countless young people who had left the church because of the hypocrisy they perceived in followers of the Prince of Peace, the God of love, who appeared indifferent to the massive scale of suffering endured by God's created beings at the hands of humans. I

Sarah Withrow King

#36. The sun was coming up: The pure, colorless vastness of the sky stretched over him, indifferent to him and his suffering.

J.K. Rowling

#37. Love cannot be indifferent to the needs of suffering and afflicted people

Sunday Adelaja

#38. Because it's not true that suffering purifies people; that we become better, wiser, more understanding in the process. We become cold and indifferent. When, for the first time in our lives, we properly understand our fate, we become almost calm. Calm and extraordinarily, terrifyingly lonely.

Sandor Marai

#39. With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.

Jerry Costello