Quotes About Apathy

Mr. White, Heath's sixth-grade teacher, once told the class that hatred wasn't the worst emotion; the worst emotion was indifference. She'd not understood what Mr. White meant until this night.

No wonder man was always out to conquer Nature, Anna thought. He can't bear it that she doesn't love him, or even hate him. She simply doesn't give a damn.

supongamos que fue crucificado supongamos incluso que se levantó de la tumba —todo eso me tiene sin cuidado—

It's not always easy to keep going when faced with indifference or to watch values being defined by a mass infatuation with mediocrity.

Feeling nothing is worse than feeling anything else. I

They look normal, but they don't feel a goddamn thing, don't know happy from sad from a hole in the ground. They walk around smiling and frowning and pretending to feel shit, and think everyone else out there is pretending, too. No one's real to these guys, you know what I mean? I don't mind telling you, Torvingen, they scare the crap out of me.

Indifference was her cloak and shield.

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

In tijden van volledige vrijheid neemt onverschilligheid voor de waarheid zo'n hoge vlucht, dat niemand de moeite neemt om een waarheid te bevestigen of weerleggen.

La violencia no basta para destruir una civilización. Cada civilización muere de la indiferencia ante los valores peculiares que la fundan.

Don't mistake passion and purpose for demagoguery. I choose emotion over apathy. Being completely rational is overrated.

This was the way the world ended. Not with a bang, nor even a whimper, but with a sort of creeping paralysis of indifference.

The human feelings, which had never been very deep in him, grew shallower every hour, and every day something more dropped away from the decrepit wreck.

the majority were of the species who, all the world over, look on the world and at everything that goes on in it and merely scratch their noses.

People can certainly be beastly about the things that affect them least, can't they?

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.

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

Zenginler, hiçbir ?eye ald?rmama, hiçbir ?eyden heyecanlanmama lüksüne sahiptirler; bu nedenle çok ya?arlar.

everything was getting worse: the climate, the economy, crime, drugs, you know. I didn't believe we would be allowed to sit behind our walls, looking clean and fat and rich to the hungry, thirsty, homeless, jobless, filthy people outside.

She's a loner, she doesn't care about being around people. So neither failure nor success concerns her.

I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer.

I am congenitally unable to take much interest in other people,

Around that time, I lost interest in college. I could only see blackness

No sentía ni entusiamo ni aversión por lo que hacía. Mi letargo era tal, que simplemente me dejaba llevar por lo que consideraban mejor para mí quienes me rodeaban.