#indifference

Overpowered by the sadness of not knowing what there is in the world, and what I'm doing. Feeling completely indifferent to good and evil too, to beauty or anything else. I know that this is the root of all human troubles, all of them. Indifferent to that knowledge, too. Nothing got written. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#beauty

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#desire #indifference #life #death

Ice is for death and endings. ↗

— Guy Gavriel Kay

#disrespect #indifference #death

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

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#suicide #dreams

Participate in your life, don't just bear witness to the rain washing you away. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#indifference #life #participate #dreams

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent. ↗

— Sergei Lukyanenko

#difficult #faith #hard #indifference #faith

...the restaurant itself is weird especially because of a big raunch mad thicklipped sloppy young Fillipino woman sitting alone at the end of the restaurant gobbling up her food obscenely and looking at us insolently as tho to say "Fuck you, I eat the way I like splashing gravy everywhere (p. 156) ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#eating #indecency #indifference #food

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

— Susan Wiggs

#indifference #love #love

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

— Christopher Pike

#indifference #love #love

The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#life #the-world #life