elzr: indifference

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The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of beauty is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, but indifference between life and death.

Elie Wiesel, US News & World Report (October 27, 1986)

I had only heard the first sentence of the quote before. All together (particularly thanks to the end-repeatal) it’s even more powerful. And it’s true.

tagged aphorisms, beauty, death, definitions, interesting people, little things, quotes, religion, wisdom, writing

Comments

1. jason on March 09, 2008:

its not true. why WHY WHY WHY i ask is indifference :”lack of interest, concern or sympathy” the opposite of all that? because someone is not interested/ doesn’t want to be bothered with something it does not make it the opposite. what if i am indifferent to hockey, does that mean its the opposite of hockey, that saying is proposterous

2. Ale Parra on March 10, 2008:

3. elzr on July 12, 2008:

The opposite of life, I learned from Egan’s unsettling Eugene, is not death but never to have been.

4. Pozzo on April 29, 2009:

You have missed the point entirely, jason and Ale Parra, and that can only be for one of two reasons: Either you have no sense of the context of this statement, or you are indifferent to the context.

5. ashme on July 21, 2009:

I love it

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