“I've gotten used to ignoring them and I think, as a result, they've kind of given up on me. I think that's what it's like with all our dreams and our nightmares, Martin, we've got to keep feeding them for them to stay alive.”— Akiva Goldsman, Sylvia Nasar, John Nash, Russell Crowe, imdb.com
“Me not paying attention to you is the best compliment you could ever get. 'Cause that means I don't have to worry about you. Go back to the office and stop being needy.”— Warren Hsu Leonard, Annalise Keating, Viola Davis, imdb.com
“Greg: You're pretty, and you're smart, and you're ignoring me, so you're obviously my type. Rebecca: I'm sorry, what were you saying? Greg: Perfect.”— Rachel Bloom, Aline Brosh McKenna, Greg Serrano, Santino Fontana, imdb.com
“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”— Martin Luther King Jr., nydailynews.com
“You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.”— Johnny Depp, amazon.com
“The intrusive thought. The needling lack of logic. The obsession. The anxiety. They do not yield, but you can get better at ignoring it.”— Hayden Carroll, thoughtcatalog.com
“You have to let him go. That means when he tries to text you to talk about his problems, you don’t reply. It means when he blows up your phone trying to get your attention, you don’t respond. It means you block him from all social media so that you don’t see if he’s having a ‘bad time’ or if he’s ha…”— Lacey Ramburger, thoughtcatalog.com
“By deliberately not responding to your reasonable calls, text messages, emails, or other inquiries, the manipulator presumes power by making you wait, and intends to place doubt and uncertainty in your mind. The silent treatment is a head game where silence is used as a form of leverage.”— Preston Ni, psychologytoday.com
“The finest act of seeing is necessarily always the act of not seeing something else.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“Trying to lure someone into talking to you by aggressively ignoring them all night.”— Maya Kachroo-Levine, thoughtcatalog.com
“You guys used to talk several times a week, but lately, the calls come less often. He says he's busy at work, but it just doesn't ring true. Just like your phone.”— Amy Keyishian, more.com
“He’s not around much anymore. That’s just the way some of us are. Many guys would rather avoid you than tell you what’s up.”— Farrah Gray, farrahgray.com
“He ignores you a lot and is constantly checking his phone. He wants to be someplace else and not with you.”— Farrah Gray, farrahgray.com
“If you ignore me, I'll ignore you. If you don't put in the effort, why should I?”— My Feelings ❅, twitter.com