Quote

Indifference creates an artificial peace.

Mason Cooley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Artificial
Indifference
Creates
Peace
Apathy

More quotes by Mason Cooley

Image
Leisure unmasks our weaknesses.
Mason Cooley
Image
I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.
Mason Cooley
Image
Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.
Mason Cooley
Image
Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream.
Mason Cooley
Image
The tranquility of my room partakes too much of Forest Lawn.
Mason Cooley
Image
Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.
Mason Cooley
Image
Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.
Mason Cooley
Image
The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.
Mason Cooley
Image
The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.
Mason Cooley
Image
Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire.
Mason Cooley
Image
Cynicism often draws correct conclusions, but nobody could live by its lights.
Mason Cooley
Image
Tolerance is a placid contempt.
Mason Cooley
Image
Shameless: Punish me for my desire if you will. It burns still.
Mason Cooley
Image
Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.
Mason Cooley
Image
The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.
Mason Cooley
Image
Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.
Mason Cooley
Image
When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap.
Mason Cooley
Image
I criticize myself ruthlessly, but never mention the faults of which I am truly ashamed.
Mason Cooley
Image
Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.
Mason Cooley
Image
Complainers detest each other.
Mason Cooley