Top 100 Love Indifference Quotes
#1. There is so little of the meek and lowly Lamb of God in those who are called by His name. Let us consider how our lack of love, indifference to the needs and feelings of
Andrew Murray
#2. As Anthony Thiselton puts it, The opposite of love is not correction but indifference.
Alexander Strauch
#3. Love is not cold and what is cold is not love.
Marty Rubin
#4. In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.
Thomas Merton
#5. 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
#6. But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him.
C.S. Lewis
#7. Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
Cesare Pavese
#8. Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.
William Congreve
#9. The settled man can cope with love and hate from others, but never with their indifference.
James Huxley
#10. When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled with war, poverty, and cruelty.
Mary Doria Russell
#11. destiny will find a way to get you two back together. Real love doesn't disappear. It can turn into hate, and hate can turn into love, but those feelings won't ever turn into indifference.
L.J. Shen
#12. All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.
Judith Crist
#13. She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.
Thomas Hardy
#14. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunise yourself with art. And love.
Matt Haig
#15. But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#16. The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.
Timothy Ferriss
#17. Perhaps after all she put me in her rectum. A matter of complete indifference to me, I needn't tell you. But is it true love, in the rectum? That's what bothers me sometimes. Have I never known true love, after all?
Samuel Beckett
#18. Altitude reduces all things to their relative proportions, and to the truth. Cares, remorse, disgust become strangers: How easily indifference, contempt, forgetfulness drop away ... and forgiveness descends.
Julian Barnes
#19. You can't get a reaction from someone who doesn't give a shit.
Emma Chase
#20. If you tell stories you love, you will never tell them with indifference - take it to the bank.
Carmen Agra Deedy
#21. 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
#22. Courage did not come from the need to survive, or from a brute indifference inherited from someone else, but from a driving need for love which no obstacle in this world or the next world will break.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#23. Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of country is the remarkable indifference they show toward the people who live in it.
Michael Parenti
#24. Adorn thyself with simplicity and modesty and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow
Marcus Aurelius
#25. If we mistake God's silence for indifference, we are the most miserable of people. If we give up when we no longer understand, we reject His caring, steadfast love and cut ourselves off from our only real hope.
Sheila Walsh
#26. The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
Elie Wiesel
#27. 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.
Gregory David Roberts
#28. They say the opposite of love isn't hate, but indifference.
B.N. Toler
#29. Embrace all emotions: sadness, happiness, sorrow, hate, love, prejudice, fear; they are weapons against our greatest enemy: indifference.
Dave Matthes
#30. Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power." He
Joan D. Vinge
#31. heart lurches because the glance he directs at me displays neither love, nor hate, but a careless indifference,
Magda Alexander
#32. Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets.
Myrtle Reed
#33. So many men treat their wives badly, or indifferently, or with barely contained impatience. Josh doesn't mind
no that's not right
he insists on openly showing his love and respect for me.
Lynn Morris
#34. temper is the most destructive of human faults. It supplants trust with fear; it poisons love; it breeds aversion or indifference; it sterilizes emotion.
Susan Hertog
#35. Being a stranger was like being dead,
and brought to mind how, in a book he had read
that most folks misunderstood one common state:
The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.
David Rakoff
#36. I pretended indifference ... even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.
Louise Gluck
#37. 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
#39. It's indifference that breaks hearts, not love.
Marty Rubin
#40. I learned that true love turns the other cheek, does not take a wrong into account, loves all people regardless of their indifference or hostility.
Donald Miller
#41. Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Henry Ward Beecher
#42. At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.
Helen Fisher
#43. Anger is not the opposite of love, for the opposite of love is indifference. To be angry is to care tremendously. - Doris Moreland Jones
Aleatha Romig
#44. She always believed love was good and hate was much better. But, indifference would've made her a no one.
A.A. Gupte
#45. I remember that my mother had once told me that the opposit of love isn't hate, it's indifference.
Emily Giffin
#46. That was how a household as contradictory as one composed of Hones, Father Keeley, Vice-Bundesfueher Krapptauer, and the Black Fuehrer could exist in relative harmony - That was how my father in law could contain one mind an indifference towards slave women and love for a blue vase
Kurt Vonnegut
#47. I can talk to him," Rhys offered. "He needs to know you still love him."
"No," Rhi said loudly, her face once more a mask of indifference.
Rhys bowed his head in acceptance. It was the same answer each time he'd asked through the centuries. "As you wish.
Donna Grant
#48. 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
#49. The healthiest kind of love leaves room for indifference.
Marty Rubin
#50. The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust
Samuel Beckett
#51. Hate is such a strong emotion. Much more powerful than indifference. But those who burn with hate can also love just as intensely. Can't they? When you hate
or love
do you do so with all your heart? So much that it feels as if you might die from it?
Morgan Rhodes
#52. He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations of a love whose subtleties he could no longer distinguish.
Gustave Flaubert
#53. When you are angry with someone,at least you acknowledge that person's existence. But with indifference,you kill him by invalidating his very existence.
Madhu Vajpayee
#54. Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.
Violet Trefusis
#55. To be Christians indeed, is to have our hearts changed by God's Holy Spirit, so as to have His love shed abroad there where once was only hatred and indifference; to have repentance where there was once no sense of sin; and to have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ where at one time was unbelief.
George E. Sargent
#56. No matter how bleak, there is still chance of love in hatred but none in indifference
Kiran Joshi
#57. Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It's the indifference I don't know how to process.
Colleen Hoover
#58. The pursuit of love seemed to need the cultivation of indifference.
Alan Hollinghurst
#59. All night I carpenter
A space for the thing I am given,
A love
Of two wet eyes and a screech.
White spit
Of indifference!
The dark fruits revolve and fall.
The glass cracks across,
The image
Flees and aborts like dropped mercury
Sylvia Plath
#60. Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything.
John Hope Bryant
#61. 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
#62. Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.
Marcus Aurelius
#63. Sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we're imagining it. Because it's the most painful kind of hope there is. By indifference . By death.
Leigh Bardugo
#64. Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.
William Hazlitt
#65. I feel love for all this, perhaps because I have nothing else to love ... even though nothing truly merits the love of any soul, if, out of sentiment, we must give it, I might as well lavish it on the smallness of an inkwell as on the grand indifference of the stars.
Fernando Pessoa
#66. The borders he respected were the borders of dreams, the misty borders of love and indifference, the borders of courage and fear, the golden borders of ethics.
Roberto Bolano
#67. Real love doesn't disappear. It can turn into hate, and hate can turn into love, but those feelings won't ever turn into indifference." She
L.J. Shen
#69. Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
#70. 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
#71. I'd rather people love me or hate me than have no opinion of me. Indifference is scary.
Lady Gaga
#72. As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see it in another light - it is a mutilation; it is the loss of a sense. The lack of it makes me blind to the needs, the pains, and the joys of those who do possess it.
Simone De Beauvoir
#73. 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 indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
Joan Didion
#74. But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
Virginia Woolf
#75. Love gratified is love satisfied,
and love satisfied is indifference begun
Samuel Richardson
#76. I'd known love before, and it had brought me so much pain that I had retreated behind an impenetrable wall of indifference, freezing out everything, everyone.
Julie Kagawa
#78. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt and general indifference, and they call it love.
Ayn Rand
#79. Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to
remember that law rules all.
Marcus Aurelius
#80. Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#81. Anger isn't the opposite of love. Hate is, and the final form of hate is indifference.[17]
Scott Sauls
#83. Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
James Baldwin
#84. Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time.
Peter Kreeft
#85. It was so strange. She'd known the man for years, and during that time the only feelings he'd evoked in her were curiosity and indifference. But three measly days at his side, and somehow she'd fallen in love with him.
Elle Kennedy
#86. She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.
Susan Wiggs
#87. This is much worse than losing a cat. You do not wish the cat dead, for example, after the first two days. You still love the cat and presumably the cat still loves you, or some variation of love that may in fact be dependence and even indifference.
Suzanne Finnamore
#88. I prefer Nature's indifference to God's love.
Marty Rubin
#89. Nature has neither love nor hate, and with indifference smiles upon the light at heart and to the heavy brings a deeper sorrow.
W. Somerset Maugham
#90. 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
#91. Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
George Eliot
#92. Hate is a strong emotion. Much more stronger than indifference. But those who burn with hate can also love just as intensely.
Morgan Rhodes
#93. Words. I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we're imagining it. Because it's the most painful kind of hope there is. It can be ripped away so easily. By indifference. By death.
Rae Carson
#94. Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.
Vironika Tugaleva
#95. Samadhi is an experience of such depth, such joy, such indifference and such love, that nothing else is really like it or worthwhile in comparison, yet it gives shape, color and meaning to everything.
Frederick Lenz
#96. 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
#98. I miss you in the maddening noise of crowd,
I hear your laughter at my folly with sweet indifference,
I miss you like a frozen tear finding its course,
I miss you in your presence inside me,
I miss you in every breath I take.
Debatrayee Banerjee
#99. 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.
Robert Creeley
#100. 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
