Quotes About Apathy

We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and smug in "the social," our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me the State may be given up for lost.

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

That was the simple truth: he just couldn't be bothered.

They are so accustomed to the feeling that their senses are deadened to it;

Well, I'm not a big sports fan.

I did not like this feeling of having feelings.

He didn't seem like somebody you'd want to invite to a party unless you'd already given up on it.

The banal drawling frowning speech of men who don't care about what they're doing. Until forced to. Who all unawares destroy their own warrens, who poison their own food, convinced of righteousness.

Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.

The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...

The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

You don't care enough to care.

It is our birthright to uncover the soul—to remove the layers of fear or shame or apathy or cynicism that conceal it.

But so little does the rest of the world seem to care if we act nobly or otherwise that no help came to her

Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

That's a beautiful speech, but nobody's listening. Let's go.

I'm tired of the news...I'm tired of anger. I'm tired of the meanness. I'm tired of selfishness...I'm tired of lying governments. I'm tired of people not caring whether they're being lied to anymore. I'm tired of being made to feel this fearful.

I didn't care much what happened to me, so chance didn't matter.

not many of us left not much movement in the blackening lanes among a few low trees little flocks of orchids in the ditches nobody cares

Acting like you don't care is a whole lot easier when you don't care

But there are worse things than people you don't care about not liking you.

Marie n'éprouva rien, ni déception ni contentement. Elle aurait aimé qu'on lui explique quoi éprouver. Elle était fatiguée.