Quotes for All
In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I’m often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly. Evelyn Underhill
fear cannot exist when one is indifferent to life. Evadne Price
The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other hand, has appropriated authority; he is sovereign. He therefore behaves as a neutral power vis-à-vis state and society. He may like, dislike, or be indifferent to whatever occurs in them. That … Read more
Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars? Ernesto Sabato
Only a person with convictions has a genuine possibility to be tolerant. He who accepts no absolute values but clings to polite doubt cannot be tolerant but merely indifferent. He is morally defenseless in the face of evil. Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love of death. This choice man must make at every minute. Never were the consequences of the wrong choice as total and as irreversible as they are today. Never was the warning … Read more
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Erich Fromm
Coupling doesn’t always have to do with sex … Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world. … Read more
Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world. Erica Jong
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. Eric Hoffer