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“The world's default mode is basic indifference. It'd like to care, but it's just got too much on at the moment.”

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David Mitchell is a British novelist known for his unique narrative techniques and profound humanistic concerns. His works often blend humor, satire, and philosophical thinking, winning him a wide audience. more

“It's not unreal to me yet, though it might get that way soon. It still feels very real. And not even horrible -- the dead are just the dead. I am convinced that the living people they once were would have been proud of their protective bodies hoodwinking their murderers to save someone else. [..] But it's not civilized. There is something indecent about it -- really foully indecent. The civilized Rose-person in me, who still seems to exist beneath the layers of filth, knows this. [..] I have become so indifferent about the dead.”

War Death Indifference Dead Ptsd Unreal Concentration Camp Civilized Behavior Prisoner Of War

Book:Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

“The highest indifference is when indeed you ignore you are ignoring someone.”

Indifference Contempt

Author:Luigina Sgarro

“She said it quite correctly; there was nothing offensive in the quiet politeness of her voice; but following his high note of enthusiasm, her voice struck a tone that seemed flat and deadly in its indifference—as if the two sounds mingled into an audible counterpoint around the melodic thread of her contempt.”

Indifference Contempt Politeness The Fountainhead Dominique Francon

Book:The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“As they stood in the heavy silence, they knew there was only one plague larger than the world's hostility--its indifference.”

Indifference Hostility

Book:The Forbidden Land of Andara

Source: The Forbidden Land of Andara

“I don't worry about what other people think of me. It's one of the things I most admired about my dad growing up. He didn't give a hoot what others thought. He was who he was. It's one of the qualities that has kept me most sane.”

Attitude Indifference Admiration Sanity

Author:Chris Kyle

“Lady Utterword: What a lovely night! It seems made for us. Hector: The night takes no interest in us. What are we to the night?”

Indifference

Book:Heartbreak House

Source: Heartbreak House

“Pleasure and pain are on the same side of the coin of human experience. The opposite is indifference or numbness.”

Pain Humanity Pleasure Experience Indifference Numbness

Author:R. N. Prasher

“She stopped for the duration of a glance around her, as if to recapture the place, but there was no recognition of persons in her eyes, the glance merely swept through the room, as if making a swift inventory of physical objects.”

Indifference Atlas Shrugged Dagny Taggart

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Incredulity and indifference were her only reaction: incredulity, because she could not conceive of what would bring human beings to such a state —indifference, because she could not regard those who reached it, as human any longer.”

Human Indifference Atlas Shrugged Dagny Taggart

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Estás solo, y al estar solo, no has de mirar nunca la hora, no has de contar nunca los minutos. No has de abrir de nuevo tu correo febrilmente, no has de seguir decepcionado si sólo encuentras en él un prospecto invitándote a adquirir por la módica suma de setenta y siete francos los tesoros del arte occidental o una vajilla de postre con tus iniciales grabadas. Has de olvidarte de esperar, de emprender, de tener éxito, de perseverar. Te dejas llevar, y eso te resulta casi fácil.”

Indifference Existentialism You Tú Un Hombre Que Duerme

Book:Un homme qui dort

Source: Un homme qui dort

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