Top 100 Quotes About Indifference
#2. Since my arrival in Rome, I have had many opportunities to wonder if compassion's opposite is cruelty, or to reflect whether or not indifference would serve as a better black to its white.
Andrew Levkoff
#3. Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.
Frederick Herzberg
#4. A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.
Lisa Kleypas
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#9. No passion, only sudden lust, and just as sudden indifference.
Clive Barker
#10. The settled man can cope with love and hate from others, but never with their indifference.
James Huxley
#11. Break free from the chains which shackle each soul through the binding links of fear, greed and indifference?
Bryant McGill
#12. Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.
Susan Abulhawa
#13. Refined indifference is a sports psychology precept: train like there's no tomorrow and then accept whatever happens. Once you step on the field realize that whatever is meant to be is meant to be.
Scott Hamilton
#14. Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.
William Congreve
#15. One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.
Oscar Wilde
#16. If I'm dying from anything, it's from indifference and red tape.
Vito Russo
#17. No one was in better position than I to know how easily shyness gets misread for arrogance or coldness or indifference.
Josh Lanyon
#18. We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.
Samuel Johnson
#19. I remember when I left Hungary," Zoltan said, "understanding so completely that literature could save me as much as it could get me killed. Of course it's not like that here. But isn't it funny, that in some ways the price one pays for freedom of speech is ... a kind of indifference.
Daphne Kalotay
#20. The pangs of pain, of failure, in this mortal lot, are the birth-throes of transition to better things. We are separated for a time by the indifference of space and our blindness which particularizes and isolates us. But in us is a longing for unity.
John Elof Boodin
#21. In the darkness of the bedroom I thought of that, although thinking in the darkness is not advisable: things seem bigger or more serious in the darkness, illnesses more destructive, the presence of evil closer, indifference more intense, solitude more profound.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#22. During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference.
Pope Francis
#23. It.
Such is the perversity of human nature that what we have in abundance-our work, our possessions, and the beauty of our surroundings-we take for granted and learn to ignore, so that we are often paralyzed by boredom, indifference, and ingratitude.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#24. Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
Cesare Pavese
#25. Indifference was the best remedy. Once you conceded defeat, life was a feather bed.
Clive Barker
#26. Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
Anton Webern
#27. What was happening to him? - he wondered. The impossible conflict of feeling reluctance to do that which was right - wasn't it the basic formula of moral corruption? To recognize one's guilt, yet feel nothing but the coldest, most profound indifference.
Ayn Rand
#28. In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths peacefully coexist in indifference.
Herbert Marcuse
#29. The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity
the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
#30. Next day, after lunch, I went to see "our" doctor, a friendly fellow whose perfect bedside manner and complete reliance on a few patented drugs adequately masked his ignorance of, and indifference to, medical science.
Vladimir Nabokov
#31. It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
Gore Vidal
#32. Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Charlie Chaplin
#33. The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference; it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.
William Hazlitt
#34. 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
#35. Wal-Mart benefits from the impression that globalization is some kind of unmanageable economic weather system out of the control of everyone, affecting all players with indifference, benefiting those who happened to be properly prepared.
Charles Fishman
#37. In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.
Evelyn Underhill
#38. Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.
Karel Capek
#39. It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.
James A. Baldwin
#40. I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France
#41. 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
#42. She always had the outward appearance of indifference, which I suspect is the real secret to longevity. That or a genuine desire to die.
Steve Toltz
#43. These days when we speak of politics at all it is with indifference, anger, or "Please, could we talk about something that doesn't make us nauseous?" But there was a time when we could discuss government with hope, pride, and trust in our leaders, and that was when Corazon Aquino was president.
Jessica Zafra
#44. 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
#45. Every emendation of Anne's had been on the side of honesty against importance. She wanted more vigorous measures, a more complete reformation, a quicker release from debt, a much higher tone of indifference for everything but justice and equity.
Jane Austen
#46. A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.
Bruce Catton
#47. The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.
Richard Whately
#48. Prayer is the battle; it is a matter of indifference where you are. Whichever way God engineers circumstances, the duty is to pray.
Oswald Chambers
#49. It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work.
Walter J. Phillips
#50. 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
#51. When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard.
Sylvia Plath
#52. In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.
Thomas Merton
#53. As Anthony Thiselton puts it, The opposite of love is not correction but indifference.
Alexander Strauch
#54. Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference
Robert Frank
#55. The wheel of fortune [ ... ] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.
Philippa Gregory
#56. The sage has in the world an appearance of indecision, and keeps his mind in a state of indifference to all.
Lao-Tzu
#57. Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.
Stephen Evans
#58. The healthiest kind of love leaves room for indifference.
Marty Rubin
#59. For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.
Albert Camus
#61. The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust
Samuel Beckett
#62. Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
Sallust
#63. Applaud us when we prevail, correct us when we fail; but, above all, do not let this indispensable, irreplaceable institution wither, languish or perish as a result of Member States' indifference, inattention or financial starvation.
Kofi Annan
#64. In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the worst enemy, the worst peril, is indifference.
Elie Wiesel
#65. Humanity badly needs things that are big and fearsome and homicidally wild. Counterintuitive as it may seem, we need to preserve those few remaining beasts, places, and forces of nature capable of murdering us with sublime indifference.
David Quammen
#67. 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
#68. When I came to the last line of 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking,' I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story's language.
Anthony Marra
#69. I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered. Indifference of that magnitude is rare and because it can be achieved only by someone ready to let go of who he is, it demands respect. It inspires awe in those who gaze upon it.
Paul Auster
#70. There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.
Albert Camus
#72. We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence ...
Shakira
#73. Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.
Henry Ward Beecher
#74. The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.
Ntozake Shange
#75. What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.
Meryl Streep
#76. Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#77. The refusal to be committed and the attitude of indifference can in fact never be neutral.
John Bertram Phillips
#78. Chernobyl, while an accident in the sense that no one intentionally set it off, was also the deliberate product of a culture of cronyism, laziness, and a deep-seated indifference toward the general population.
Svetlana Alexievich
#79. You don't like me do you?'
'That would take effort,' she replied. 'Indifference is much, much easier.
Jasper Fforde
#80. he wore his wealth with the comfortable indifference of someone born into it. New-made nobles, pretenders, and rich merchants simply don't carry themselves the same way. Alveron
Patrick Rothfuss
#81. If we knew how much He loves us, we should be always ready to receive equally and with indifference from His hand the sweet and the bitter; all would please that came from Him.
Brother Lawrence
#82. The workers aren't going to stop struggling. They're going to struggle to have a union and they have the right to have it. The police repression and the grower indifference to the workers' demands for recognition cannot go unheard so we're going to keep on struggling until we get that recognition.
Cesar Chavez
#83. On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest the theft of their presidential election in June 2009, President Obama was silent for 11 days.
Elliott Abrams
#84. Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.
Lord Chesterfield
#85. 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
#86. Indifference is the strongest contempt.
Ha Jin
#87. The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference.
James F. Cooper
#88. I do my intellectual work inside myself, and once I am with my fellow creatures it is more or less a matter of indifference to me whether or not they are intelligent as long as they are kind, sincere, etc.
Marcel Proust
#89. Thousands of miles of wheat, indifference, and self- apology.
Mordecai Richler
#90. 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.
Matthew Arnold
#91. Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.
Victor J. Stenger
#92. The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.
Robert M. Hutchins
#93. Photographs should celebrate the contingent, the spontaneous, the incomplete, the fortuitous. Direct, unblinking vision should be coupled with deliberate indifference as to subject. The ironic goal is a scrupulous recording of whatever chance brings to hand.
Douglas McCulloh
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference
Elie Wiesel
#97. Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design
Dieter Rams
#98. Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.
Carrie P. Meek
#99. The facade of grief may be indifference, preoccupation, anger, cheerfulness, or any variety of emotions. But if we try to understand it, we may learn how to cope with it.
Billy Graham
#100. The U.S. will never be a free and happy nation while they continue to exploit and marginalize the Third World. The Third World will never be happy or free so long as there is a First World stuck in the mire of consumerism, alienation, indifference. (Clodovis Boff, p. 161)
Mev Puleo
