Quotes of: Indifferent Keyword

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.

Tom Flynn

Writing is emotional...it is baring your soul to the world and waiting for someone to acknowledge and love it, or shun and hate it, or worse be indifferent about it.

Doubt

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.

Devil in Winter

It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.

Fair Play

Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe.

God's Smuggler

Sometimes the path of least resistance leads us to a place of great indifference.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

The circle of indifference has the self at its centre. The circle of compassion has others at the centre. The former leads to apathy; the latter to empathy.

Rise of the Sun Prince

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

A Room with a View

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent

People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in common.

The Moviegoer

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

Love in the Time of Cholera

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

Life of Christ

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

The Love Mindset

People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around deep down in the rabbit's fur!)

Sophie's World

I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.

Paul Elmer More

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.

Quentin Crisp

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

Thomas Aquinas

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.

T. E. Lawrence