Indifference Quotes - Page 21

• Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.

  William Hazlitt

  Facts, Wit, Eloquence

  William Hazlitt (1857). “Lectures on the English comic writers. Lectures on the English poets”, p.14

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• A soul so pitiably forlorn, If such do on this earth abide, May season apathy with scorn, May turn indifference to pride; And still be not unblest- compared With him who grovels, self-debarred From all that lies within the scope Of holy faith and christian hope; Or, shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.

  William Wordsworth

  Christian, Lying, Pride

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.355

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• One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Suffering, Noise, Existence

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• He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.

  Charlaine Harris

  Boredom, Contempt, One Word

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.85, Penguin

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• A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

  Edmund Burke

  Hate, Order, Hatred

  Edmund Burke (1842). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with a biographical and critical introduction, by Henry Rogers, and portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.377

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• A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.

  Ian Fleming

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• She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Long Ago, Should Have

  Jane Austen (2011). “Persuasion: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.46, Penguin

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Soul, Sickness, Contagious

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.89, Schocken

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• But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.

  William Congreve

  Sweet, Wish, One Day

  William Congreve (1706). “The Way of the World: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's Servants. Written by Mr. Congreve”, p.13

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

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Sublime, Universe

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• I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

  Albert Camus

  Stars, Night, Sky

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• This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of those unbridled passions, stretching over many years, and at times making their effect felt on several generations? We’re a long way from Wuthering Heights, to say the least. The novel form is not conceived for depicting indifference or nothingness; a flatter, more terse, and dreary discourse would need to be invented.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Passion, Years, Long

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• We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Ignorance, Opportunity, Animal

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). “Eating Animals”, p.208, Penguin UK

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• The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.

  Sherwood Smith

  Rain, Passion, Tangled

  Sherwood Smith (1997). “Crown Duel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The AIDS disease is caused by a virus, but the AIDS epidemic is not. The AIDS epidemic is fueled by stigma, by hate, by misinformation, by ignorance, by indifference. Science has accomplished miracles over the past 20 years, and science can now end this disease - but it cannot end the epidemic. We need more than medicine. We can do something about these things. We need to speak out about the changes we need to make in our society.

  Elton John

  Hate, Ignorance, Past

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• To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can be for a powerful minority to manipulate information to win the support-or the indifference-of the majority towards an action.

  Randal Marlin

  Powerful, Mistake, Winning

  Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.14, Broadview Press

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• 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.

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Mets, Blank

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• Samadhi is an experience of such depth, such joy, such indifference and such love, that nothing else is really like it or worthwhile in comparison, yet it gives shape, color and meaning to everything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Color, Giving, Joy

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• Why this strange indifferences to missions? Why these scant contributions? Why does money fail to be forthcoming when approved men and women are asking to be sent to proclaim the “unsearchable riches of Christ” to the heathen?

  Lottie Moon

  Men, Doe, Asking

  Lottie Moon, Keith Harper (2002). “Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings”, p.225, Mercer University Press

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• Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed by literature toward the state is essentially the reaction of the permanent-better yet, the infinite-against the temporary, against the finite.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Organization, Literature, Irony

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• In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Spiritual, Hate

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.47, Macmillan

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• Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

  Cesare Pavese

  Perfect, Behaviour, Behavior

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “This Business of Living: Diary: 1935-1950”, London : P. Owen

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• What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.

  Meryl Streep

  Tolerance, Brutality

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• 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.

  A. J. Liebling

  Writing, Pay, Firsts

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.59, Macmillan

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• But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference on the part of the perpetrator to the rest of the world in general, are not only registered on the delicate surfaces of the brain but eat little holes in it until it finally collapses or blows up.

  Robert Benchley

  Blow, Ice, Brain

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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