355 Quotes About Indifference

Since my arrival in Rome, I have had many opportunities to wonder if compassion’s opposite is cruelty, or to reflect whether or not indifference would serve as a better black to its white.

Since total skepticism about ultimate beliefs is strictly impossible, in that no belief can be doubted except on the basis of some other belief, indifference is always in danger of giving place to some sort of fanaticism that can be as intolerant as any religion has ever been.

Indifference to ideas is a sign of good health.

Indifference is one of the seven deadly sins, actually the greatestof them all, because it is the only one that sins against life.

His stomach turned inside out, like a glove, and he vomited.    It wasn't disagreeable at all. Almost like a liberation, in fact. A kind of suicide, in a way. These particles of matter that showered from his mouth, after he had thought them consumed and digested, did not disgust him. No, he was completely indifferent to them; and to everything else, for that matter. It was only when he vomited that he could be indifferent even to life itself.

To conquer, you must endure not just your own suffering but the suffering of others. Indifference is the ultimate evolutionary achievement, the highest rung on nature's ladder.

No society is born humane. It has to be made humane.

Sometimes being indifferent solves everything.

So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself”; and we said it would be the best thing.