Quotes About Apathy

Dat is mijn misdaad... ik heb gezondigd in onverschilligheid...

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Éste es mi silencio, mi falta de ganas, mi inutilidad atroz.

En el momento en el que la autocomplacencia se instala, las cosas empiezan a ir mal y casi siempre conduce a la perdición.

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

Our modern pessimists cannot see a tree, a flower, or a mountain, but straightway they drop into what I may call a falling sickness, and all the beauty of the woods, fields, and sky merely suggests to them a picturesque background for their own superior sighs and sorrows.

I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him.

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

My mom is pretty unimpressed by everything. She loves black-and-white movies, and the only things she watches in color on T.V. are Judge Judy and Geico commercials because she loves the Geico gecko. I think it would mean something to her if I made it in a Geico commercial.

People invade your space and offend your sensibilities because, to be plain, they couldn't care less about you.

When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

It's pointless to get all huffy about stuff.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to the classes.

I never could make it to morning classes. I never felt like I needed to do it. I remember being in class, and saying, I don't care about this, I don't need to know this.'

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.

Sometimes when you're not confident in yourself, to see someone who doesn't care - and I don't care anymore. I really don't care - it gives you that confidence.

In SW1 you don't really need survival skills, you just exist.

I felt I was a bit switched off for years, not really caring about things. I don't know if that's depression or whatever, but I was thinking 'I might. Aye I will. No, I willnae' as far as getting a second series goes.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Así piensa el bogotano. Eso piensa. «Que, salvo mi casa de dos pisos, la ciudad siga siendo una cloaca». «Que todos, menos yo, cojan una neumonía de estas que están arrasando con la ciudad». «Que si finalmente se va a caer Bogotá, hoy lunes 31 de agosto, que entonces se les caiga sólo a ellos».