Quotes About Apathy

But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friendly, easygoing – and uninvolved. They were like spectators. You had the feeling they had just wandered in there themselves and somebody had handed them a wrench. There was no identification with the job.

The opposite of love is not hate; its opposite is indifference." The biologies of strong love and strong hate are similar in many ways, as we'll see.

Elie Wiesel, el ganador del Premio Nobel y superviviente de un campo de concentración: «Lo contrario al amor no es el odio; lo contrario es la indiferencia». Las biologías del amor fuerte y del odio fuerte son parecidas en muchos aspectos, tal como veremos.

The opposite of love is not hate; its opposite is indifference.

the opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

the moment indifference took over, life began to subside. Few men rose out of it: most lost all impulse toward activity and ended by offering death at least a halfhearted welcome.

I'm tired of justice, ain't you?

I stopped paying attention to her. I stopped doing the things that someone does for the person he loves. Because I was tired. Because other things always seemed to matter a little bit more." He

Time is not your friend. It doesn't care if you live fast or die slow, if you are or if you aren't. It was here before you arrived and it will go on after you leave. Time doesn't care who wins or who loses, if your life span is full or empty, honorable or shameful. Time is indifferent. It simply doesn't give a shit.

Nothing. It all sounds stupid.

an auction where most of the bidders wouldn't pay thirty-five cents to see Christ ride a bicycle.

The cousin was made of different stuff; his biting air of laziness and superiority made one want to kick him.

Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.

May the gods ignore you.

As far as I know, there's nothing more dangerous than a man who doesn't care if he lives or dies.

toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.

La esencia de la actitud displicente surge de un embotamiento de la capacidad de discriminar.

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

She won't think anything about it.

I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things.

we live in a world of corpses, and only about some of them is there a hue and cry. True

Nature is not cruel, it is simply indifferent

Perhaps they are worse than evil - they are bored.

L'attrattiva della letteratura, rifletté, consisteva nella sua indifferenza, nella sua totale mancanza di deferenza. I libri se ne infischiavano di chi li leggeva; se nessuno li apriva, loro stavano bene lo stesso. Un lettore valeva l'altro e lei non faceva eccezione.