Quotes About Apathy

just irrelevant background noise to him? Or did he not care enough even to wonder?

Most historians agree that the decline of the Great Library of Alexandria was due to what endangers libraries of the present day--general indifference and bureaucratic neglect.

Where moderation is a fault indifference is a crime.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat it.

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters

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It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.

Yet in my experience, when left to their own devices people will get up to one of two things: nothing much, and no good.

I bask in their heatedness as before a woodstove. My own apathy is bone chilling.

unto me a son was born, and I felt nothing.

Over the years I observed Kevin watching decapitations, disembowelments, dismemberments, flayings, impalements, deoculations, and crucifixions, and I never saw him flinch. Because he'd mastered the trick. If you decline to identify, slice-and-dice is no more discomforting than watching your mother prepare beef stroganoff.

indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.

There's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.

lackadaisically;

Yet what best protected privacy wasn't concealment but apathy - the fact that other people simply weren't interested.

Yet what best protected privacy wasn't concealment but apathy—the fact that other people simply weren't interested.

To truly pull off proper apathy about the stuff (money) would require so much energy, such contrived ideological zealotry, that the indifference would amount to a kind of caring.

The very best thing about getting old was basking in this great big not-giving-a-shit.

How in the face of an end game there was virtually no limit to what did not matter.

I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.

But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.

And so Deb is the only person in the world who gives a rusty possum fart whether I live or die.