Indifference Quotes

A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too many chances to endure for long. Could anything postpone for a while the hour of its ruin, it would be precisely the extreme instability of the opinions of crowds and their growing indifference and lack of respect for all general beliefs.

~ Gustave Le Bon

One of the most liberating notions is learning how many truly do not care about you, and moreover, how the few who do care about you, marvel at your indifference.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed ere long into an amiable indifferentism which to outward appearance differed but little from the indifferentism …

~ Samuel Butler

It was not only Odette's indifference, however, that he must take pains to circumvent; it was also, not infrequently, his own; feeling that, since Odette had had every facility for seeing him, she seemed no longer to have very much to say to him when they did meet, he was afraid lest the manner - at once trivial, monotonous, and seemingly unalterable - which she now adopted when they were together should ultimately destroy in him that romantic hope, that a day might come when she would make avowal of her passion, by which hope alone he had become and would remain her lover.

~ Marcel Proust

Begging for love and charitising in turn.

~ Archana Singh

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

~ Cesare Pavese

Some people are like an open grave:You give it the thing you love mostAnd then get nothing in return.

~ Abu Al-Ala Al-Ma'arri

In my day, husbands and wives showed each other a suitable level of indifference.

~ Ashlyn Macnamara

I could try to care, but I ain't sure it's worth the bother.

~ Anne Elisabeth Stengl

The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.

~ Bruno Schulz

Faced with today's problems and disappointments, many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape.

~ John Paul Ii

You can always count on God to do nothing.

~ Marty Rubin

My mother always says that indifference is the greatest cruelty.

~ Mark T. Mustian

Perhaps she would not have thought of wickedness as a state so rare, so abnormal, so exotic, one which it was so refreshing to visit, had she been able to distinguish in herself, as in all her fellow-men and women, that indifference to the sufferings which they cause which, whatever names else be given it, is the one true, terrible and lasting form of cruelty.

~ Marcel Proust

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

~ Arthur E. Morgan

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

~ Juan Montalvo

Communists have committed great crimes but at least they have not stood aside like an established society and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.

~ Graham Greene

Hate is not the opposite of love apathy is.

~ Rollo May

What makes life dreary is want of motive.

~ George Eliot

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

~ Dante Alighieri

Once conform once do what others do because they do it and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair but to he who does not concern us at all.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Most of us have no real loves and no real hatreds. Blessed is love less blessed is hatred but thrice accursed is that indifference which is neither one nor the other.

~ Mark Rutherford

The only menace is inertia.

~ St. John Perse

Tolerance is a tremendous virtue but the immediate neighbours of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

~ Sir James Goldsmith

If moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime.

~ G. C. Lichtenberg

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

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

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

~ Elie Wiesel

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

~ Edmund Burke

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

~ Albert Camus

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

~ Norman Cousins

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

~ Lord Byron

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

~ Anatole France

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

~ William Hazlitt