Indifference Quotes - Page 19

• Like Jesus, we can decide, daily or instantly, to give no heed to temptation (see D&C 20:22). We can respond to irritation with a smile instead of scowl, or by giving warm praise instead of icy indifference. By our being understanding instead of abrupt, others, in turn, may decide to hold on a little longer rather than to give way. Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Irritation, Giving

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• For the Warrior of Light there is no such thing as an impossible love. He is not intimidated by silence, indifference or rejection. He knows that, behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire. Without love, he is nothing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Heart

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• A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory of it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles: he goes on

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Pain, Loneliness

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• Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.

  Louis Nizer

  Reality, Differences, Skills And Talent

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• What I love most about nature is how indifferent it is to us humans and human suffering. While we are here with our little or big tragedies - the wind is blowing, the leaves are rustling in the trees, the flowers bloom, and die - there's a great comfort in that indifference.

  Valzhyna Mort

  Flower, Wind, Tree

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• Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

  Plato

  Self, Contentment, Foundation

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• The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for enthusiastic justifications for slavery, persecution, abandonment of small children, torture, and genocide... Moreover, religion enshrined hierarchy, authority, and inequality... It was the age of equality that brought about the disappearance of such religious appurtenances as the auto-da-fe and burning at the stake.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Religious, Children, Rights

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• Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

  Oscar Wilde

  Revenge, Mediocrity, World

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.202, Courier Corporation

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• Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time.

  Peter Kreeft

  Hate, Opposites, Indifferent

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.41, Ignatius Press

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• To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

  Emile M. Cioran

  Aliens, Claims, Detached

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe. We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.

  Ben Okri

  Ignorance, Simple, Parent

  "The Famished Road". Book by Ben Okri, 1991.

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• And I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.

  Albert Camus

  Stars, Heart, Dark

  Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.54, Hamilton Books

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• Evil is nothing but a word, an objectification where no objectification is necessary. Cast aside this notion of some external agency as the source of inconceivable inhumanity - the sad truth is our possession of an innate proclivity towards indifference, towards deliberate denial of mercy, towards disengaging all that is moral within us. But if that is too dire , let's call it evil. And paint it with fire and venom.

  Steven Erikson

  Fire, Agency, Evil

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• RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds and properly dispose our listeners to a pain they have never dreamed of. The context of what can be known establishes that love and indifference are forms of language, but the wise addition of punctuation allows us to believe that there are other harms - the dash gives the reader the clear signal they are coming.

  Ben Marcus

  Wise, Art, Pain

  Ben Marcus (2013). “The Age of Wire and String”, p.92, Granta Books

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

  John Bowlby

  Despair, Misery, Mask

  John Bowlby (1946). “Forty-four Juvenile Thieves: Their Characters and Home-life : [With Bibl.].”

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• 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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Spring, Eye, Past

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.82, Virginia Woolf

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• A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.

  Charles Dickens

  Passion, Thinking, Gentleman

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.371

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• It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. Parkinson’s is a perfect metaphor for lack of control. Every unwanted movement in my hand or arm, every twitch that I cannot anticipate or arrest, is a reminder that even in the domain of my own being, I am not calling the shots. I tried to exert control by drinking myself to a place of indifference, which just exacerbated the sense of miserable hopelessness.

  Michael J. Fox

  Drinking, Destiny, Hands

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• No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Confused, Men, Keys

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• The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.

  Philippa Gregory

  Victory, Triumph, Want

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to men has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Heart, Men

  "Fictional character: Antonius Block". "The Seventh Seal", 1957.

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• Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.

  Samuel Beckett

  Running, Flying, Calm

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.192, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall of Man. But there must be some hope that we can rise to a higher level ... that consciousness can evolve to a plane more benevolent than its counterpoint of a universe hardwired to indifference.

  Dan Simmons

  Pain, Fall, Men

  Dan Simmons (2011). “The Fall of Hyperion”, p.270, Spectra

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• By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in so doing one implies that such fine actions are only valuable because they are rare, and that malice or indifference are far more common motives in the actions of men.

  Albert Camus

  Powerful, Men, Evil

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