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He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.

I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.

If I'm dying from anything, it's from indifference and red tape.

He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.

Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.

Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

Indifference looks like detachment, but it is not; indifference is simply no interest. Detachment is not absence of interest - detachment is absolute interest, tremendous interest, but still with the capacity of non-clinging. Enjoy the moment while it is there and when the moment starts disappearing, as everything is bound to disappear, let it go. That is detachment.

Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

Indifference, lukewarmness, and neutrality are always attached to failure.

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

In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.

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.

Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that you listen to the horrid tales of the Bible, or hear them with callous indifference?

It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.

It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.

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.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?

It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.

Indifference to one's own faith is no proof of tolerance. Loyalty to one's own is part of a larger loyalty to faith generally.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.

Marriage as an institution is not so much threatened by same-sex couples as it is by heterosexuals' increasing indifference to it.

It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.

Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.

Love may turn to indifference with possession.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see

One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.

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

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.

Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.

Poise and indifference so often look the same.

Rich people live in places so removed from everybody else, they operate in circles so incestuous and so closed, they're off on islands. To try to understand their indifference is to understand also their separation from the rest of society.