Top 85 Life Indifference Quotes
#1. Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.
Kahlil Gibran
#2. It seemed to him that life's true tragedy was to lift up one's voice among the living and be met with indifference.
Cristina Garcia
#3. The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.
Yann Martel
#4. For the Warrior of Light there is no such thing as an impossible love. He is not intimidated by silence, indifference or rejection. He knows that, behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire. Without love, he is nothing.
Paulo Coelho
#5. Fear cannot exist when one is indifferent to life.
Evadne Price
#6. My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.
Vincent Gallo
#7. I hate feeling hate but feeling nothing feels worse.
Brian Spellman
#8. Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference
Robert Frank
#9. There are three conditions which often look alike
Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow:
Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment
From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ...
T. S. Eliot
#10. The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference
Elie Wiesel
#11. He is perhaps fifteen - not truly a young man yet, but certainly well on his way - and he walks with the energy and indifference of one who possesses the luxury of youth but not yet the experience to appreciate its value or evanescence.
John Burley
#12. In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.
Thomas Merton
#13. I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.
Robert Frank
#14. Attentativeness is the path to true life.
Indifference is the path to death.
The attentive do not die.
The indifferent are as if they are dead already
Dhammapala
#15. He opened the veins of the social body to cure the disease; but he allowed life to flow out, pure or impure, with indifference, without casting himself between the victims and the executioners.
Charles Warwick
#16. Indifference was the best remedy. Once you conceded defeat, life was a feather bed.
Clive Barker
#17. The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible
and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.
Rudyard Kipling
#18. In the quiet of the garden then the robin shook his worm, and swallowed its life from the light into darkness with the quick indifference of a god.
Chris Cleave
#19. Any one episode, or even moment, in a person's life is so complex, with so many layers of past and present, desire and indifference, drift and drive, consciousness and unconsciousness, that language is the best means we've found of approaching that kind of complexity.
Ben Fountain
#20. Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed? ; 75
Also, as in war, the case, like a great bubbling cauldron of life itself, threw up both good and evil. Greed, madness, cruelty and indifference were countered by goodness, devotion, self-sacrifice, and courage. p 178
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#21. She answered her husband with friendly evasiveness - not with any fixed design to mislead him, only because all sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to Fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference.
Kate Chopin
#22. The moment indifference took over, life began to subside. Few men rose out of it: most lost all impulse toward activity and ended by offering death at least a halfhearted welcome.
Larry McMurtry
#23. One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.
Alexandra David-Neel
#24. 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.
Henry Parry Liddon
#25. Indifference to all the refinements of life
it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.
Aldous Huxley
#26. He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.
H.W. Brands
#27. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.
G.K. Chesterton
#28. In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference, and age lives in perennial youth. Life is a weariness only to the idle, or where the soul is empty.
Leopold Hartley Grindon
#29. There are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#30. We ought to be able to combine opposites: the love of goodness with indifference to other people's opinions, a liking for work with indifference to fame, concern for our health with indifference to life.
Nicolas Chamfort
#31. Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence and heap new guilt on the old original one. Our life is a
chain of sin and expiation controlled by a destiny that can not be understood.
Joseph Goebbels
#32. After the first blush of sin comes its indifference; and from immoral it becomes, as it were, unmoral, and not quite unnecessary to that life which we have made.
Henry David Thoreau
#33. I take the measure of the ridiculous, superfluous cats who wander through our lives with all the placidity and indifference of an imbecile are in fact the guardians of life's good and joyful moments, and of its happy web, even beneath the canopy of misfortune.
Muriel Barbery
#34. No one knows if I'm dying to laugh or to cry
So my verse has
this almost imperceptible thrill
Life is sad, the world is crazy!
Not worth killing yourself for it
Not for anyone
For no love
Life goes on, indifferently!
Mario Quintana
#36. She knew instinctively that every creature was entitled to one thing: life. To steal that through abuse or indifference argued a crime against
J.K. Accinni
#37. 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, and sometimes it's heartbreaking, and your life is never the same thereafter.
Ann Aguirre
#38. There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Charles Caleb Colton
#39. I can see where
creation often
stops while the
body still lives
and often
does not care
to.
the death of life
before life
dies.
Charles Bukowski
#40. Indifference kills. It takes much less thought to be indifferent than to hate.
L.R.W. Lee
#41. Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life ...
Ursula K. Le Guin
#42. We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#43. In the past few months, life had lost its sweetness and he'd lost his way. But no longer. Death was once again the enemy, his indifference and apathy drowned in a Cheshire pond.
Sharon Kay Penman
#44. 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.
Julia Ward Howe
#45. The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#46. And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection.
Anton Chekhov
#47. [ ... ] they imagine that the life they are obliged to lead is not that for which they are really fitted, and they bring to their regular occupations either a fantastic indifference or a sustained and lofty application, scornful, bitter and conscientious.
Marcel Proust
#48. The circle of indifference has the self at its centre. The circle of compassion has others at the centre.
The former leads to apathy; the latter to empathy.
Shubha Vilas
#49. The Jew is not satisfied with de-Christianizing, he Judiazizes, he destroys the Catholic or Protestant faith, he provokes indifference but he imposes his idea of the world of morals and of life upon those whose faith he ruins. He works at his age old task, the annilation of the religion of Christ.
Bernard Lazare
#50. Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
Bliss Carman
#51. The seeming imperfections of Earth, the hazards and inequalities of life, the cruelty, harshness and apparent indifference to suffering and affliction are not what they seem; as it is Earth is perfect for its purpose. It is ignorance of that purpose which makes it appear imperfect.
Kolbrin BIble
#52. Only God can give us a selfless love for others, as the Holy Spirit changes us from within. This is one reason we must receive Christ, for apart from His Spirit we can never be freed from the chains of selfishness, jealousy, and indifference. Will others see Christ's love in your life today?
Billy Graham
#53. To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.
Dalai Lama XIV
#54. Participate in your life, don't just bear witness to the rain washing you away.
Thomm Quackenbush
#55. Be thankful for the efforts of people who worked hard to get you where you are; you should not take it for granted and treat them with indifference.
Roy T. Bennett
#56. God may be a matter of indifference to the evolutionists, and a life beyond may have no charm for them, but the mass of mankind will continue to worship their creator and continue to find comfort in the promise of their Savior that he has gone to prepare a place for them.
William Jennings Bryan
#57. Your life of indifference to the risen Christ and of halfhearted attention now and then to a few of his commandments will appear on that day as supremely blameworthy and infinitely foolish, and you will ... weep that you did not change.8
Daniel L. Akin
#58. Yes, but the artist?" said Nigel almost fiercely. "He's different, you know he is. He's driven by some compulsion: if he can't do what he knows he has to do with his life he might as well be dead. He's got to break through the world's indifference, or else break himself against it. He can't help it.
Mary Stewart
#60. Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
Fulton J. Sheen
#61. There were moments when life at school became a matter of utter indifference to him. Then the putty of his everyday concerns dropped out and, with nothing more to bind them together, the hours of his life fell apart.
Robert Musil
#62. You may discover that the very aspects which make it most unendurable are what gives New York its meaning. Its inconsistencies and anonymity, its seeming indifference to you and every other individual is really what makes it a safe haven for individuals everywhere (Maeve Brennan)
Elizabeth Winder
#63. The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism - an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.
Kathryn Schulz
#64. The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
Elie Wiesel
#65. 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.
Joan D. Chittister
#66. I am sensitive soul; I feel with the moon,
I use to be judged for my indifference, now I see their all just hiding behind false truths.
Nikki Rowe
#67. Sisa shut up the cabin and covered the few embers with ash so they wouldn't go out, as people do with their deepest feelings: cover them with life's ashes, which they call "indifference," so they don't go out completely as a result of day-to-day interaction with our peers.
Jose Rizal
#68. Some days he climbed over the foothills of indifference to see the landscape of his life and future for what it was: mappable, traversable, achievable.
Dave Eggers
#69. Indifference is one of the seven deadly sins, actually the greatest
of them all, because it is the only one that sins against life.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#70. Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.
Socrates
#71. On principle' one can do anything and what one does is, fundamentally, a matter of indifference, just as a man's life remains insignificant even though 'on principle' he gives his support to all the 'needs of the times.
Soren Kierkegaard
#72. 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 the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.
William Congreve
#73. And I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.
Albert Camus
#74. Life is really a travesty of will: it is a parade of learning how to lose people and improve at feigning indifference.
I suspect I shall always fail at this, and fail miserably. I do not know whether that is winning at life or failing at happiness.
Michelle Franklin
#75. The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus men practice mutual deception on each other and fall asleep in wicked indifference.
John Calvin
#76. The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
Iris Murdoch
#77. More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.
Robert Menzies
#78. It occurred to Anita that hatred and dislike and even indifference were all luxuries, born of the mistaken belief that anything could last forever.
Tommy Wallach
#79. Now, if you asked him what he was going to do with himself, he'd tell you he guessed he might do anything he set his mind to. But he'd say it in a far-off way, as if he didn't really mean it or care much at all.
Jennifer Niven
#80. Remember, Lily, the opposite of love is nothingness - indifference. Hate and love are two sides of the same magic stone. What to worry about in this life is lack of feeling. Feeling nothing.
Heidi R. Kling
#81. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.
G.K. Chesterton
#82. If you see oppression, violence, injustice and evil deeds, unzip your silence and uncaring indifference, do something and act against all these unethical instances." ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from my novel, If I Could Tell You
Angelica Hopes
#83. She wondered what she thought of herself, and came to the realization that she felt mostly indifference towards her entire life.
Stieg Larsson
#84. One of our greatest challenges is to handle Winning without arrogance, being educated without being condescending and having compassion without developing indifference
Kalon Jackson
#85. Our indifference towards others can after all result in only one thing: the indifference of others towards us.
Vaclav Havel, quoted in Havel: A Life
Michael Zantovsky
