I Quotes
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“Indicating his twisted legs without a trace of self-pity or bitterness, as if they belonged to all of us, he casts his arms wide to the sky and the snow mountains, the high sun and dancing sheep, and cries, ’Of course I am happy here! It’s wonderful! Especially when I have no choice!’ In its wholehearted acceptance of what is;I feel as if he had struck me in the chest. Butter tea and wind pictures, the Crystal Mountain, and blue sheep dancing on the snow-it’s quite enough!
Have you seen the snow leopard?
No! Isn’t that wonderful?”
Source: The Snow Leopard
“Indicting red squiggly lines in our thoughts may besiege our mind at some point. Before they take possession of the framework and the outlines of our lives, we must endeavor, from the outset, to track down the upsetting causes in the blurred trenches of our inner selves. ("Unfulfilled meeting")”
“Indie authors write, design, sell. Like magic, skip one and you make must read vanish.”
“Indie film isn’t dead. It just grew up.”
“Indie music is 'it' now. It's kind of a revolution to the music: 1980s, 1990s music was getting very sanitized; they were complying with the music industry. Music was getting more and more dead in a way. Now, because of the social climate that's very severe, the artists are compelled to start being real. It's really great that indie music is now.”
“Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak.”
“Indie record stores are as important to a touring musician as an incredible thrift store. I can't overstate how good it feels to place an original pressing of 'veedon fleece' in your most underused of shirts and pack it into your suitcase, anxiously awaiting the day you get home so that you can play it as though it was your reward or trophy from the long journey you had just finished embarking on.”
“Indie rock is just as susceptible - if not more susceptible - to all the gross things about people becoming total ass clowns in music, and only worrying about money and image. I'm not interested in being a part of that.”
“Indie rock is very healthy, there's a lot of diversity and a lot of creativity, but it does not have the revolutionary spirit of the late-70s punk scene in regards to design and politics and fashion and stuff like that.”
“Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.”
“Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and fewer days to shoot.”
“Indiferent de vremuri... pune mâna pe o carte...”
“Indifference and greed has taken control of our lives. If a decision or mandate doesn't affect us we do not care, we do not think of the many who will suffer the consequences... Many will soon be without healthcare coverage and the healthy people do not care. The government says it will be replace with DGS... and it is true... Death Got Served.”
“Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.”
“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike ...We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too long, and we are now reaping our reward.”
“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
“Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.”
Source: The End of the Affair
“Indifference breeds animosity.”
Source: Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self
“Indifference creates an artificial peace.”
“Indifference destroys vocation unlike any other intangible force, for the reason that it shakes the very core of our motivation for doing what we do.”
“Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.”
“Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don’t stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn’t act, it allows. And that’s what gives it so much power.”
Source: The Snow Queen
“Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.”
“Indifference is a quarantined difference.”
“Indifference is a well that never runs dry, and as good a word for evil as was ever composed.”
Source: A Habit of Resistance
“Indifference is acceptable from a vegetable, not from a human being.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.”
“Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.”
“Indifference is convenience but equality is necessity, and sometimes we have to give up our convenience to make way for the necessity.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“Indifference is dangerous, whether innocent or not.”
“Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.”
Source: Crystal Eastman on women and revolution
“Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.”
“Indifference is malice. It may not sting with the immediacy of hate, but the wound it leaves behind can linger deeper, even imperceptibly, if we aren't careful, of course.”
Source: Elegy
“Indifference is modern cannibalism.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time.”
Source: Prayer for Beginners
“Indifference is one of the seven deadly sins, actually the greatest
of them all, because it is the only one that sins against life.”
“Indifference is silent, so is realization, but the difference between the two is that the silence of indifference sustains a life of complacency, whereas the silence of realization pours in your veins such courage that you no longer are able to maintain indifference of any sort - wherever and whenever you see injustice and discrimination you leap in revolution - you leap with a strong conviction of equality and humaneness - you leap in an act of revolution.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“Indifference is the acid of life. It erodes all the spirit that's in us and makes us useless to anyone else. We all have to stand for something, or our souls cease to breathe.”
“Indifference is the dead weight of history.”
Source: History, Philosophy and Culture in the Young Gramsci
“Indifference is the destroyer of civilizations.”
“Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.”
“Indifference is the greatest aphrodisiac.”
Source: Dancer from the Dance
“Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.”
“Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.”
“Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.”
“Indifference is the only thing left once true love dies.”
“Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“Indifference is the saddest state of being. It's like PTSD - you're not gonna fight, you're not gonna run, you're just frozen there, feeling nothing. It's very easy to have conversations when you're sitting there feeling nothing, to talk about the weather or what you had for lunch, to Instagram what you had for lunch. We're all suffering from trauma. This world is so crazy. How do we feel safe here? I think that's the question everybody's asking, "What do I need to do to feel safe? Like I'm okay?" I don't think there's anything wrong with that.”
“Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.”
Source: The Judges: A Novel
“Indifference is the strongest contempt.”
Source: A Good Fall: Stories