Quotes About Unconcern

#1. Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern ...

Aphra Behn

#2. If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

James S. Coleman

#3. Nobody chased her. But that was nobody's fault, really, not in a city of this size. It was only the callousness of four hundred thousand people, blending into a single blue-black pool of unconcern. That's what we copper stars are for, I think... to be the few who stop and look.

Lyndsay Faye

#4. The more simply we entrust ourself to Nature the more wisely we do so. Oh what a soft and delightful pillow, and what a sane one on which to rest a well-schooled head, are ignorance and unconcern.

Michel De Montaigne

#5. She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.

Margaret Mitchell

#6. It is perhaps, plausible that a man in this situation, impressed with the unconcern of the universe, should see the innumerable flaws of his life and have them taste wickedly in his mind and wish for another chance.

Stephen Crane

#7. When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.

Billy Sunday

#8. Toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.

Dorothee Solle

#9. No court presumes to tell a jury that they are to try a capital case with the same indifference and unconcern as to consequences, that they would a case where the results of their decision would be less important.

Lysander Spooner

#10. How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#11. Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.

Marquis De Sade

#12. But time lessens all extremes, & reduces them to mediums & unconcern.

Aphra Behn

#13. Is not a patron my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?

Samuel Johnson

#14. It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.

Stonewall Jackson

#15. [He] stared at Rowl with flat eyes.
Rowl yawned his unconcern. "If you wish to keep those eyes," he said pleasantly, "move them elsewhere.

Jim Butcher

#16. Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,
the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

Samuel Johnson

#17. Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected anger a great wrong is in a healthier moral condition than a community which looks upon its perpetration with apathy and unconcern.

Lyman Abbott

#18. But time lessens all extremes, & reduces them to mediums & unconcern.

Aphra Behn

#19. These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.

Karl Philipp Moritz

#20. Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and their elders' cold unconcern toward others. Maybe the homeless are not the only ones who need to spend time in these places to thaw out.

Anna Quindlen

#21. Criticize me if you can, but that won't stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#22. The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.

Jerry Kramer

#23. ...he loved everything, he was full of joyous love towards everything that he saw. And it seemed to him that was just why he was previously so ill - because he could love nothing and nobody.

Hermann Hesse

#24. Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#25. The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?

Anthony Liccione

#26. What a tangle love is.

Alyson Noel

#27. There comes a time in every young girl's life when she is instructed by a complete stranger to scale a tall ladder for dinner atop a roof, and in almost every case the best thing to do is refuse and run home to call the asylum from which the stranger escaped.

Gina Damico

#28. The warming springtime of human hope does not give in to the wintry smiles of the cynic and the realist; it blossoms and it perishes in the sad autumnal winds. And then it is born again - for ever and ever.

Richard Stites

#29. Our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves. Self reliance means, if anyone will not work, neither should he eat.

Michele Bachmann

#30. Well, this whole question of how you work out the narrative is very mysterious. It's a good deal more arbitrary than most people who don't do it would ever believe.

Joan Didion

#31. I'm lucky to have parents who used to be bodybuilders! They help me keep fit by going to the gym and training with me. I'm also addicted to Cardio Barre classes and hiking.

Janel Parrish