Quotes About Apathy

I am not a fan of supermarkets and I hate shopping there, even for things I can't get elsewhere, like cat food and bin bags. A big part of my dislike of them is the loss of vivid life. The dull apathy of existence now isn't just boring jobs and boring TV; it is the loss of vivid life on the streets; the gossip, the encounters, the heaving messy noise that made room for everyone, money or not.

At that time I could not imagine what would become of me, and I didn't care. It was not judgement day, but another morning.

It's a dead issue. These days you can hardly get people to read about a live issue. People are issued out.

Presupun c? numai din lene lumea e aceea?i de la o zi la alta.

I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away.

Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great collective passion of our time.

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

I'm bored, I'm the chairman of the board.

Usually with my opponents, I don't care if they win the lottery or they die.

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

I really don't care about the Oscars.

He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

A machine does not care

I always try to give credit whenever credit is doo doo even thought I really don't give a crap!

Sorry . . . I can't help stupid.

She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?

The single hardest thing for a practicing politician to understand is that most people, most of the time, don't give politics a first thought all day long.

I suspected it was just that I no longer cared so much. And that felt like the saddest thing in the world

She could easily have remarked on the heavy skiing weather, or asked how he could even see the road, or complained about the town not getting its ploughs out-- anything at all to show interest or pretend to show interest, the way people talk to make things a little more pleasant-- but no, not Katri Kling. There she stood squinting through her cigarette smoke, her black hair like a mane shrouding her face as she leaned over the table.

Sometimes I wonder if they live in a state of apathy or ignorance, or if they are passive, but when I consider what continues to exist inside Tibet, even after such violent upheaval, it is resistance that comes to mind, not inaction. I have come to equate concrete action as resistance. It is harder to define their quiet refusal to change, and their resilience because I have not been taught to acknowledge what comes without manifestations in word or action.

I'm fresh out of fucks to give.

He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. It takes energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy was lacking. He knew how things could stand bare, their essence having retreated on all sides to beyond the horizon, as if impelled by a sinister centrifugal force.