#Indifference Quotes

“Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets." Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.”

“He receives comfort like cold porridge.”

“She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me.”

“A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?”

“Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.”

“Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.”

“Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing”

“How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?”

“It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.”

“An age is the reversal of an age:When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone,We lived like men that watch a painted stage.What matter for the scene, the scene once gone:It had not touched our lives.”

“Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.”

“I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve my body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, before this omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.”

“We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.”

“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.”

“It's more provocative to say 'might still have sex' because - it doesn't matter to me. There's not, like, one that hurts my feelings and one that doesn't.”

“We must have friendship for all; we must be merciful toward those that are in misery; when people are happy, we ought to be happy; and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.”

“One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.”

“In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.”

“Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.”

“I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.”

“I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuous. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all.”

“If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.”

“What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.”

“But I may be one who does not careEver to have tree bloom or bear.”

“The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.”

“One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.”

“The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.”

“The trick is, as I know it, is to care like helland not give a damn at the same time.”

“You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.”

“Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive.”

“Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.”

“One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.”

“Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.”

“Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.”

“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 toremember that law rules all.”

“The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.”

“Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.”

“We could not help being struck by the seeming, though innocent, indifference of Nature to these men's necessities, while elsewhereshe was equally serving others. Like a true benefactress, the secret of her service is unchangeableness. Thus is the busiest merchant, though within sight of his Lowell, put to pilgrim's shifts, and soon comes to staff and scrip and scallop-shell.”

“It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it.”

“Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.”

“Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.”

“Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.”

“For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.”

“People ask me what's like to hear our song on the radio. I don't know, I don't listen to the radio”

“Hate and love are very similar emotions. The opposite of love is you don't care.”

“Oh well, whatever, nevermind.”

“I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead.”

“Just as soon as we notice that someone has to force himself to pay attention when dealing and talking with us, we have a valid demonstration that he does not love us or that he does not love us anymore.”

“I should not mind anything at all.”

“[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.”