Quotes about Indifference

I believed that if you have the heart to make a difference, there is always an answer, but if you have a heart of indifference, there is never an answer.

The bottom line is that indifference is really a form of selfishness.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.

A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.

A spoon does not know whether it enters a rich or poor man's mouth.

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.

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.