90 Indifference Quotes About Indifferent Attitude

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Indifference means having a lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern for something. Indifference simply means not caring. When someone is indifferent toward you, they’re showing they don’t care about you.

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A lot of times people ask is indifference a good or a bad thing? Indifference is often considered a worse human attribute because it has no emotion, no expression and no response.

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An indifferent attitude is only good if you use it to keep away negativity. And in all othre situations empathy and care is the best way to spread love and kindness.

Best Indifference Quotes

  1. “Indifference makes the difference.” – Unknown                                                                                 
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    indifference quotes

  2. “Even your indifference was lukewarm.”

  3. “Nothing screams indifference as loud as silence.” – Unknown                                                       
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    quotes about indifference

  4. “Politeness is organized indifference.” – Paul Valery

  5. “Indifference creates an artificial peace.” – Mason Cooley

  6. “The most destructive criticism is indifference.” – E. W. Howe                                                     
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  7. “Let integrity be your weapon and indifference be your shield.”

  8. “Indifference is the dead weight of history.” – Antonio Gramsci

  9. “Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.” – Khalil Gibran

  10. “The great enemy of morality is indifference.” – Albert Schweitzer                                                       
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    indifference quotes and sayings

  11. “Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.” – Cesare Pavese

  12. “An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman.” – Elie Wiesel                                   
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    elie wiesel indifference quote

  13. “I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.” – Albert Camus

  14. “Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.” – Jack Kornfield

  15. “There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.” – Juan Montalvo                                                                                                                                                                   
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    indifference quote

  16. “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”

  17. “Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.” – Edwin Schlossberg

  18. “Don’t be cold to someone you care about. Indifference hurts more than angry words.” – Unknown                                                                                                                                     
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  19. “He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe.” – Albert Camus

  20. “There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference.” – Machado de Assis

  21. “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.” – J. K. Rowling

  22. “For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.” – Adolphe Thiers

  23. “In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.” – Al Goldstein

  24. “Hate damages the soul of a , but indifference provides for its quiet detachment.” – Donald Lynn Frost

  25. “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” – Desmond Tutu

  26. “But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  27. “Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.” – Walter Scott

  28. “Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.” – Charles Henry Parkhurst

  29. “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” – Albert Einstein

  30. “It was just this quiet moment of indifference to your existence… and that’s when I knew that I had healed.” – butterflies rising

  31. “All you’ll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.” – Judith Crist

  32. “She didn’t just feel unloved, she felt indifference, and that is something that cuts like a knife when it comes from someone you love.”

  33. “The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.” – George Bernard Shaw

  34. “I love you so much that nothing can matter to me – not even you. Can you understand that? Only my love – not your answer. Not even your indifference.” – Ayn Rand

  35. “Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.” – Crystal Eastman

  36. “The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.” – Robert M. Hutchins

  37. “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.” – Joan D. Chittister

  38. “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.” – Elie Wiesel

  39. “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 and persevere and never give up.” – Dalai Lama

  40. “Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.” – Haile Selassie

Indifferent Quotes

We see indifference in various aspects of life be it life, relationship, or work. Indifference in a relationship means no longer caring about your romantic partne.

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Everything may seem fine on the surface because there are no arguments, but the arguments may have only stopped due to a lack of interest and enthusiasm.

  1. “Indifference is the strongest contempt.” – Ha Jin

  2. “Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.” – Ouida

  3. “It’s not hatred that kills people, it’s indifference.” – Elie Wiesel                                                   
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    hate and indifference Quotes

  4. “Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.” – William Hazlitt

  5. “Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.” – Edmund Burke

  6. “Fear cannot exist when one is indifferent to life.” – Evadne Price

  7. “The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.” – Marshall McLuhan

  8. “Indifference is dangerous, whether innocent or not.” – Pope Francis

  9. “Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.” – Mason Cooley

  10. “Tolerance is another word for indifference.” – W. Somerset Maugham

  11. “Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.” – Elie Wiesel

  12. “A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.” – Peter Marshall

  13. “Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.” – Oscar Wilde

  14. “Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.” – Karl Friedrich Schinkel

  15. “It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.” – Mary Parker Follett

  16. “Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.” – Pope Francis

  17. “I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

  18. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

  19. “Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.” – Frederick Herzberg

  20. “Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.” – Elie Wiesel

  21. “Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.” – George Eliot

  22. “Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.” – Paramahansa Yogananda

  23. “There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.” – Frederick Soddy

  24. “Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.” – Thomas Hardy

  25. “There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.” – Pope Francis

  26. “Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.” – Abraham Joshua Heschel

  27. “The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.” – Iris Murdoch

  28. “Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don’t stand a chance against it.” – Joan D. Vinge

  29. “Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another’s heart, or its flame burns low.” – Henry Ward Beecher

  30. “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.” – Elie Wiesel

Quotes About Being Indifferent

  1. “Indifference is power.”

  2. “I’m not anti-social. I’m just not social.”

  3. “Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.” – Ukranian Proverb                                             
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  4. “Indifference breeds animosity.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach

  5. “Indifference to me is the epitome of all evil.” – Elie Wiesel                                                         
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    elie wiesel quotes indifference

  6. “The worst sin… is to be indifferent.” – George Bernard Shaw

  7. “Indifference is a quarantined difference.” – Akiane Kramarik

  8. “The tragedy of love is indifference.” – W. Somerset Maugham

  9. “Indifference because some people do not deserve your emotions.”

  10. “Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.” – George Bernard Shaw                                         
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    famous indifference quotes

  11. “Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.” – William Feather

  12. “Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.” – Lord Chesterfield

  13. “The most deadly poison of our time is indifference.” – Maximilian Kolbe

  14. “The opposite of love is indifference to the genuine needs of others.” – Max Anders

  15. “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. If you hate someone, you still care.”

  16. “The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.” – Bess Myerson

  17. “The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.” – Jules Michelet

  18. “To be treated with indifference is the greatest tragedy a human soul can suffer.” – Tonny K. Brown

  19. “To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.” – Marya Mannes

  20. “More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.” – Robert Menzies

  21. “Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one’s self.” – Marie Ebner-Eschenbach

  22. “Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.” – G.K. Chesterton

  23. “The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.” – Blaise Pascal

  24. “Indifference may not wreck a man’s life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.” – Bliss Carman

  25. “They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.” – Anton Chekhov

  26. “Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.” – Henry Ward Beecher

  27. “Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.” – Cesare Pavese

  28. “He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it’s just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.” – Anne Frank

  29. “The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.” – Agnes Repplier

  30. “Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who’ve never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt and general indifference, and they call it love.” – Ayn Rand

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