Indifferent Quotes

“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.”
― Carl Sagan

“I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me
whether what I have thought has already been
thought before me by another.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“Life is similar to a bus ride.
The journey begins when we board the bus.
We meet people along our way of which some are strangers, some friends and some strangers yet to be friends.
There are stops at intervals and people board in.
At times some of these people make their presence felt, leave an impact through their grace and beauty on us fellow passengers while on other occasions they remain indifferent.
But then it is important for some people to make an exit, to get down and walk the paths they were destined to because if people always made an entrance and never left either for the better or worse, then we would feel suffocated and confused like those people in the bus, the purpose of the journey would lose its essence and the journey altogether would neither be worthwhile nor smooth.”
― Chirag Tulsiani

“Detachment is not the absence of emotion, it is the process of becoming one with the Oneness that is the Universe. To be detached, is to realize that the fullness of all there is, is too much to react to with just one emotion, one thought, or any bias. To be detached, is to acknowledge all, without owning any of it. To be detached, is to summon forth the whole entirety of understanding, to the fragment that is the void.”
― Justin K. McFarlane Beau

“I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography

“How small and neat and comically serious the other men looked, with their grey-flecked crew cuts and their button-down collars and their brisk little hurrying feet! There were endless desperate swarms of them, hurrying through the station and the streets, and an hour from now they would all be still. The waiting mid-town office buildings would swallow them up and contain them, so that to stand in one tower looking out across the canyon to another would be to inspect a great silent insectarium displaying hundreds of tiny pink men in white shirts, forever shifting papers and frowning into telephones, acting out their passionate little dumb show under the supreme indifference of the rolling spring clouds.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

“Relax; the world's not watching that closely. It's too busy contemplating itself in the mirror.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The danger, when not seen, has the imperfect vagueness of human thought. The fear grows shadowy; and Imagination, the enemy of men, the father of all terrors, unstimulated, sinks to rest in the dullness of exhausted emotion.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

“People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around deep down in the rabbit's fur!)”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“The story Grandpa told us helped me realize that people cannot be divided into groups by ethnicity, religion, or any other feature, only into groups of good, bad, and indifferent people.”
― Savo Heleta, Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia

“Every man at some point in his life needs to be tested so he can find out if he’s a righteous man or an indifferent one.”
― Dannika Dark, Two Minutes

“Placing oneself in a position where one is thus traversed, broken, fucked by the socius, looking for the right place where, according to the aims and interests assigned to us, one feels something moving that has neither an interest nor a purpose.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“If you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. -Kahlil Gibran”
― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

“ক্লাশভর্তি উজ্জ্বল সন্তান, ওরা জুড়ে দেবে ফুলস্কেফ সমস্ত কাগজ!
আমি বাজে ছেলে, আমি লাষ্ট বেঞ্চি, আমি পারবো না!”
― Abul Hasan, আবুল হাসানের শ্রেষ্ঠ কবিতা

“People and things need not be interesting to us for them to be beneficial to us.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Men have true freedom only if they are indifferent to the past and the future. As soon as they regret or expect, there’s attachment and suffering.”
― Maxime Lagacé

“Indifference is acceptable from a vegetable, not from a human being.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity

“At dawn, after my death hours before,
The sunlight will spread at seven o’clock as usual
On these trees which I know.
Greenness will burst, dark green shadows yield
To the cruel-benign, indifferent sun.
Indifferent will stand the trees in my own garden,
Unweeping for me on the morning of my death.
Same as ever, roots athirst,
The trees will rest in breezeless dawn,
Blind and uncaring,
The trees that I knew,
That I tended.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“Where one has become indifferent (nispruha), there pure love has not arisen. And where there is no pure love, no work can be accomplished there.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“We' (the Gnani Purush) are neither indifferent (nispruha) nor are 'we' with inclination (saspruha) We are saspruha-nispruha. 'We' have indifference towards your worldly matters and 'we' have interest in matters regarding of your Soul (Atma).”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Only dogs and donkeys sleep while their society suffers, not humans.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity

“Great men may become indifferent as to what the papers say about them; I had never attained to this exalted state of mind.”
― Anthony Hope, Phroso

“Better be an impractical fool with warmth, than a dead ribcage without a heart. Better be a law-defying bad samaritan, than a complacent bag of lard.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“When you are nothing,
you are everything.

-be indifferent to both.”
― Sumit Tak

“Enough with nonchalance in the name of practicality! Let us now rise as tornado and wipe out all apathy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

“Wake up from death and return to life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

“Light is not the absence of darkness, light is the absence of indifference.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“It's good to be different, what's not good is to be indifferent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Better kind than correct,
Better idiot than arrogant.
Better ignorant than bigoted,
Better exploited than indifferent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Brooke Westfield. You just told me you are ‘indifferent’ to your cheating ex. It’s obvious that flames of passion are waiting around the corner to be ignited.”
― Marie Soleil, Love is a Roller Coaster: A Sweet Second Chance Romantic Comedy