“The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.”
Source: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
“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.”
Source: The Last Star
“The difference between men and women is this--if you catch a woman butt-naked, she tries to cover the private parts with her hands. A man will sit there just like you found him even if he doesn't have much to be proud of.”
Source: Murder Passes the Buck
“He has always been politely indifferent. But what's the Chinese word that means indifferent because you can't see any differences?”
Source: The Joy Luck Club
“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed ere long into an amiable indifferentism which to outward appearance differed but little from the indifferentism …”
“Abuse is never contained to a present moment, it lingers across a person’s lifetime and has pervasive long-term ramifications.”
Source: Breaking Free From the Chains of Silence: A respectful exploration into the ramifications of Paedophilic abuse
“Abuse is never deserved, it is an exploitation of innocence and physical disadvantage, which is perceived as an opportunity by the abuser.”
Source: Breaking Free From the Chains of Silence: A respectful exploration into the ramifications of Paedophilic abuse
“Kayıtsızlık dili geçersiz kılıyor,işaretleri anlaşılmaz hale getiriyor.Sabırlısın ama beklemiyorsun, özgürsün ama seçmiyorsun,müsaitsin ama hiçbir şey seni harekete geçirmiyor. Hiçbir şey istemiyor,hiçbir şey talep etmiyor, hiçbir şeyi dayatmıyorsun.Hiç dinlemeden duyuyor,hiç bakmadan görüyorsun.”
Source: Un homme qui dort
“She felt a bored indifference toward the immediate world around her...She took it as a regrettable accident, to be borne patiently for a while, that she happened to be imprisoned among people who were dull.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Overpowered by the sadness of not knowing what there is in the world, and what I'm doing. Feeling completely indifferent to good and evil too, to beauty or anything else. I know that this is the root of all human troubles, all of them. Indifferent to that knowledge, too. Nothing got written.”
Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954