Best 298 quotes in «indifference quotes» category

You need fire, conviction, to write. You can't write out of indifference.

You will find love. Believe me. But in order to find it, I think you have to prepare yourself for a life alone and be at peace with that. It’s a real tightrope walk. I get it. But you won’t tell tepid to fuck off if you don’t believe in your heart that you will rock it out one way or another.

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference.

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.

You need spirit, fire, to write. You can't write out of indifference.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.

And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

As the possibility of a relationship had faded, Emma had endeavored to harden herself to Dexter's indifference and these days a remark like this caused no more pain than, say, a tennis ball thrown sharply at the back of her head.

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the British elite in this country: Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.

Don't repackage your fear and try to sell it to me as indifference.

But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable orthodoxy; heresy in the form of indifference.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Applaud us when we prevail, correct us when we fail; but, above all, do not let this indispensable, irreplaceable institution wither, languish or perish as a result of Member States' indifference, inattention or financial starvation.

Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence, indifference at best or outright antipathy at worst.

For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.

Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't.

Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet

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

Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.

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

God is missed through laziness, indifference and unwillingness.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.