“The most severe, audacious and effective revenge is eternal indifference.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: La vendetta più severa, audace ed efficace è l’eterna indifferenza.
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“Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.”
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
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Variant: It takes all sorts to make a world.
Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 4
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“Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.”
Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer
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“Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.”
Jane Wagner (1935) Playwright, actress
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“She seldom bothered taking revenge. Time did that for her, eventually.”
Poul Anderson book The Boat of a Million Years
Source: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 15 “Coming Together”, Section 2 (p. 281)
“Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.”
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer
“All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp, without force.”
Joseph Conrad book The Secret Agent
Source: The Secret Agent (1907), Ch. 13
Context: All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp, without force. And madness and despair are a force. And force is a crime in the eyes of the fools, the weak and the silly who rule the roost. You are mediocre. Verloc, whose affair the police has managed to smother so nicely, was mediocre. And the police murdered him. He was mediocre. Everybody is mediocre. Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world. Ossipon, you have my cordial scorn. You are incapable of conceiving even what the fat-fed citizen would call a crime. You have no force.