Sayings About Being Indifferent

#1. The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an interest in his life and character.

W. Somerset Maugham

#2. the fear of being indifferent is not the same as indifference itself.

Michael Landweber

#3. Sometimes being indifferent solves everything.

Marty Rubin

#4. Doctors have told me I have a high pain threshold, but I can only know what I feel. I think I'm good at minimising the pain and being indifferent to it.

Johnny Knoxville

#5. Not Giving A Fuck Does Not Mean Being Indifferent; It Means Being Comfortable With Being Different

Anonymous

#6. Humans are mostly kind only to their own-self, and their own. To another being, they're mostly indifferent, if not inhumane.

Fakeer Ishavardas

#7. Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

Simone Weil

#8. Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths.

Rumi

#9. I should be an affected women, if I made any pretence of being surprised by my son's inspiring such emotions; but I can't be indifferent to anyone who is so sensible on his merits

Charles Dickens

#10. Didn't being out in the storm scare you?"
"Try a couple of high-summer prairie storms in a trailer," she mused. "That either makes you terrified of them or indifferent to them.

Roberta Pearce

#11. Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me that you are indifferent to being heard. You may write for the joy of it, but the act of writing is not complete in itself. It has to end in its audience.

Flannery O'Connor

#12. As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom.

Lyn Nofziger

#13. Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.

John Herschel

#14. 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

#15. Nondistraction means not being lost in subtle undercurrents of delusion or indifferent stupor ...

Thinley Norbu

#16. What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.

John Banville

#17. Man may be doomed to loss, sorrow, and desolation, but if he tries his strength and will, however briefly, upon the indifferent vast hostility of the elements, he rages against futility and asserts his right of being

Jim Perrin

#18. For the first time, Manning felt frightened. It was an indefinite fear, of being small and vulnerable among large forces that were indifferent to him.

Michael Frayn

#19. I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.

Thomas Ligotti

#20. Being an actor, when you sign onto a project - whether it's good, bad, or indifferent - you kind of fall in love with it. You fall in love with the experience, you fall in love with the memories.

Matthew Lillard

#21. K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It's just there. It's indifferent. It's an inanimate mountain made of rock, ice, and snow. The "savageness" is what we project onto it, as if we blame the peak for our own misadventures on it.

Ed Viesturs

#22. What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Sylvia Plath

#23. There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.

William Hazlitt

#24. You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur.

Wallace Stegner

#25. Meditation is a state of no-mind! You can not find meditation through the mind .. because mind will perpetuate itself! You can find meditation only by putting the mind aside, by being cool, indifferent, unidentified with the mind.

Rajneesh

#26. Let death take me planting my cabbages, indifferent to him, and still less of my garden not being finished. (tr. Charles Cotton)

Michel De Montaigne

#27. The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

William Dampier

#28. Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

Albert Einstein

#29. I am not a part of this home any longer. I am a tiny thing created by indifferent scientists. I am an experiment, a mechanical bee placed near the hive. The real bees were happy being bees until I came along and gave them all the false information that destroyed their little lives.

James Tate

#30. A human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one.

Alice Miller

#31. I soon found myself becoming indifferent to people. A well cynicism rose in me. Conversations all sounded as if they had been recorded years ago and were being played back on a turntable.

Tennessee Williams

#32. Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

Pope Francis

#33. Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control.

Earl Nightingale

#34. Singleton has an almost uncanny ability to resist being caught up in the fads and fancies of the moment. Like most great innovators [and investors! - Ed.], Henry Singleton is supremely indifferent to criticism.

Robert J. Flaherty