Quotes About Apathy

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

And as things fell apart, nobody paid any attention.

It is not to be imagined that William entered on this new chapter of his wedded life with rosy expectations. However, he had long ago given up expecting much of anything. Drama, as usually happens in real life, had ended not in tragic denouement, but in lassitude and anti-climax. In pity, in exasperation, in ironical apathy, he settled down to his accustomed round.

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

God is missed through laziness, indifference and unwillingness.

God was bored by him.

Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God.

After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.

The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

Indifference is the only road that never gets to God.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

I don't really get excited about good things happening to me.

I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature.

Literature bores me, especially great literature

I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

Never in the history of boredom has anyone been more bored than I am right now.

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek - Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong And dare not speak!

I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not playing for that.

No hope no action.

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.