I hate feeling hate but feeling nothing feels worse.

Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.

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

Since my arrival in Rome, I have had many opportunities to wonder if compassion’s opposite is cruelty, or to reflect whether or not indifference would serve as a better black to its white.

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

Perhaps she would not have thought of wickedness as a state so rare, so abnormal, so exotic, one which it was so refreshing to visit, had she been able to distinguish in herself, as in...

Tolstoy said, ‘The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.’ Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our...

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...

You can’t be neutral on a moving train.

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...

Indifference does not make a difference

Indifference to ideas is a sign of good health.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects...

I could try to care, but I ain’t sure it’s worth the bother.

To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive...

It was not only Odette’s indifference, however, that he must take pains to circumvent; it was also, not infrequently, his own; feeling that, since Odette had had every facility for seeing him, she seemed no...

This little girl will guard her tower with the most vicious dragon of all: indifference.

The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.

Indifference is a well that never runs dry, and as good a word for evil as was ever composed.

So many men treat their wives badly, or indifferently, or with barely contained impatience. Josh doesn’t mind– no that’s not right–he insists on openly showing his love and respect for me.

Divisions in mankind are unnatural. They are man made.

I need to learn to stay away from those who want to steal my heart and replace it with steel.

If anyone thinks he has faith and yet is indifferent towards this possession, is neither cold nor hot, he can be certain that he does not have faith. If anyone thinks he is Christian and...

His hatred for all was so intense that it should extinguish the very love from which it was conceived. And thus, he ceased to feel. There was nothing further in which to believe that made...

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

Since total skepticism about ultimate beliefs is strictly impossible, in that no belief can be doubted except on the basis of some other belief, indifference is always in danger of giving place to some sort...

She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations...

I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart.

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

You can always count on God to do nothing.

For a minute, the fantasy frightened her, but ultimately, this fear saved her from feeling alone.

his unwavering confidence – but now, it feels like a brand of indifference

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn’t implement any of it.

It would indicate complete indifference to the laws relating to speed,

It doesn’t matter how I express myself artistically.It doesn’t matter what medium I use to showcase my art.And it doesn’t matter how talented I am.There will always be the indifference that keeps those from wanting...

A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too many chances to endure for long. Could anything postpone for a while the...

Faced with today’s problems and disappointments, many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I...

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death,...

It’s indifference that breaks hearts, not love.

You can’t get a reaction from someone who doesn’t give a shit.

I don’t judge or believe in any religion, I’m just learning from their divine esoteric stories.

Beguiled by George S. Bush’s easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn’t choosing a president, it’s casting the lead in a sitcom...

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...

Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and himself. Nobody else much entered into it. After the people came into it he was,...

Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed.

The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year’s loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

One of the most liberating notions is learning how many truly do not care about you, and moreover, how the few who do care about you, marvel at your indifference.