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Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.
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.
Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.
passivity means waiting for an opportunity,
Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
The thrill of being ignored!
To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.
Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
Failing to look inscrutable to any but the habitually dismissive ...
antipathy toward
She was like someone in whom the faculty of becoming interested is worn out.
Indifference is one of the seven deadly sins, actually the greatest
of them all, because it is the only one that sins against life.
Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.
Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.
Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'.
Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.
What we are not at all interested in may be what we are.
Apathy? Apathy? I don't care about apathy.
DESIRE for money, and actually
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.
The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary
It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.
The ignobility of thought and action that desperation born of indigence produces.
The great delusion of men everywhere, that their disregard for other people makes them interesting
REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.
I couldn't master this kind of apathy, no matter how hard I tried. I was built to care - to notice, to overanalyze, to try - in a way that felt inalterable.
We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.
The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
Enthusiasm brushes off upon those with whom you come in contact.
The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.
The conceptions of idle talk, of superfluities, and of vain ostentation, all designations of an irrational attitude without objective purpose, thus
a lack of love:
between a man and a woman is the announcement that what they might produce would only be a badly organized, unhappy being, wanting in harmony in itself.
interest in what is happening
A mind that establishes indifference is the mind that builds failure.
unfavorable feeling,
Here is a couple more things I can't spell without you, disgust and distrust.
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.
Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.
Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others.
dislike in ourselves.
Many people have reasons and excuses for inaction, not the reasons for actions; or they neglect them
Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing others down to its own level.
Misunderstanding ... when the silence is not understood.
Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.
Indifference is a quarantined difference.
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
Four Unpardonable Sins of a Communicator: being unprepared, uncommitted, uninteresting, or uncomfortable.
Tolerance is another word for indifference.
The most destructive criticism is indifference.
The low desire, the base design
That makes another's virtues less.
Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.
Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
unduly influenced
Ignorant of the place it had been and blind to where it was headed.
He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.
I disdained to argue, and entrenched my curiosity behind a rampart of pretended indifference.
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so it's best to do nothing.
The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don't know where that elsewhere is.
I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties are my aversion, and I look with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called.
Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.
Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.
This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.
Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason
Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars
An inability to encourage someone else is usually rooted in an absorption
with self that is blind to the needs or gifts of others, or a pride that cannot bring itself to praise God's grace in them.
Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.
Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.
To be inactive while engaged in activity is the real inactivity (non-doership)!
It was as if hardship bred indifference.
In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at hand is felt in popular apprehension to call for explanation, and unworthy motives of miserliness are imputed.
It's a sense more of resignation than of acceptance, of entrapment rather than freedom, of being stuck rather than moving forward.
There is a pleasure in not being pleased.
Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death,
Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.
Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.
Indifference can be fun.
ennui - that dreaded mire of the human emotions.
[R]estlessness usually stems from pride and from being discontented with one's lot in life.
Lack of action is the reason why an unwanted situation persists.
preoccupation with fantasies of success; exhibitionism and insatiable attention-getting maneuvers;
Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.
Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.
Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.
The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
The things we always disengage with are one-sided stories or one-sided characters. They're very boring. When you feel like you're being hit over the head, you disengage.
Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.
2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.
Nothing makes one so easily a fatalist as indifference.
There are no uninteresting people, only disinterested listeners!
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.