Quotes about indifference

All sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference.

Most people have very little imagination. They are hardly moved by anything which does not directly touch them, which does not positively hammer its message upon their senses; but even a trifle, should it happen under their very eyes, and within the immediate range of their feelings, will instantly kindle in them a disproportionate amount of passion. We may say that the rarity of their interest is compensated by an inappropriate and exaggerated vehemence when their interest is at last aroused.

That thing doesn’t care about you. It won’t reward you when you take risks. It is simply indifferent. That’s the fact about it that most never learn. They hate it and fear it and finally ignore it. Because of that. It would be easier if it hated us. Maybe even if it hunted us. But it doesn’t care. Remember.

Basically, I exploited the phenomenon of the technician’s often blind devotion to his task. Because of what seems to be the moral neutrality of technology, these people were without any scruples about their activities. The more technical the world imposed on us by the war, the more dangerous was this indifference of the technician to the direct consequences of his anonymous activities.

Americans are becoming increasingly polarized right and left, with the great body of the people in the middle confused and, sometimes to mask their confusion, feigning indifference.

It would have been easy to dislike her intensely, but I actually felt nothing for her at all.

“What do you think?”

“I can hardly contain my indifference.”

I have lived ten thousand years; I am used to it. Lovers dying, civilisations dying…one develops a certain god-like indifference to it all, intellectually.

[Tom had] learnt to value detachment: the clinician's splinter of ice in the heart.

That day it hit me, that I’d been feeling nothing. I’d become entirely callous.

But I have been ashamed of myself for getting so thoroughly hardened so quickly.

This is the stuff we're made of, half indifference and half malice.