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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.
Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.
Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .
Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.
Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.
The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart.
Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character.
Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.
The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.
The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.
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.
Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
The older I get, the more aware I am of the banality and indifference of a place like Trinidad to any development of the arts.
Mme. Deluzy has said that indifference is a woman's guardian angel,--a remark not only applicable in France, but all over the world.
We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.
So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.
Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.
Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.
A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.
Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.
The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.
The worst thing that can happen to Russia is indifference in the West - that is, if it were interested in nothing but oil and gas.
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.
Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.
Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything.
London and its people are famed for their incredible indifference to one another, but it's actually a charade that requires some effort to maintain.
There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.
Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It's the indifference I don't know how to process.
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.
To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
The biggest sin against the poor and the hungry is perhaps indifference, making believe we do not see, passing by on the other side of the street.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.
I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.
The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.
For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.
It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.
We win with facts that are well expressed and frequently communicated; we lose with silence and indifference to the broader social context.
The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.
We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence.
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
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.
Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.
We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.
