Quotes About Apathy

Andy? Really, who gives a shit?

Jameson had a habit of tossing out words that should matter like they didn't at all.

It doesn't matter unless you let it matter.

I feel a lot of nothing

The Sierra Madre was like the sea, he thought. Both of them deathless, monotonously eternal, and so indifferent in their magnitude that either could accept the dust of all the world's dead and not have the decency to show it in posture.

No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.

He [Maxime] was twenty, and already there was nothing left to surprise or disgust him. He had certainly dreamt of the most extreme forms of debauchery. Vice with him was not an abyss, as with certain old men, but a natural, external growth.

On May 5, 1896, he wrote in his diary; "I have no longer anything to say; everything is alike in its horrible cruelty.

I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.

I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.

What is that apathetic being doing?' she demanded, pushing the thick entangled locks from her wasted face. 'Has he fallen into a lethargy, or is he dead?

You did respond—your response was the worst kind—you did nothing.

his unwavering confidence - but now, it feels like a brand of indifference

I'm not impressed

Mulch was not impressed. 'I'm not impressed,' he said.

Mulch was not impressed. "I'm not impressed

Mortals, screw 'em.

Mulch was not impressed. "I'm not impressed," he said.

Jeff: I could go to New York if I wanted to, but what's the point? So I can learn how to order a capuccino? So I can get mugged by some crackhead? So I can see homeless people up close and personal? Sooze: So what do you want to do? Jeff: Nothing. Sooze: No one does nothing, Jeff! Jeff: Okay, well, then I'm going to break new ground. Sooze: New ground?! Jeff: Mm-hmm. Sooze: Taking one community college course on the history of Nicaragua while barely holding a job packing boxes?

I think that the word bored does not get the attention it deserves. We speak of all sorts of terrible things that happen to people, but we rarely speak about one of the most terrible things of all : that is, being bored, being bored alone and, worse than that, being bored together.

On les écouta, on compatit, on s'indigna, on promit, mais on ne bougea pas une lance

Perspective is useful, of course: It's why very few people want to be eighteen again. But the other side is having so much perspective, it's hard to give a damn about anything happening here in the real.

He was pulling Bs in his classes, because that was what you got when you weren't really trying,

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.