Quotes About Apathy

I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

A]ll the...people who visited me out of a sense of duty, who were relentlessly sympathetic and secretly indifferent.

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.

It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not anger but indifference.

One can,' said Ernest 'remain unmoved before a cloud as before an automatic ticket machine. I don't like poetry, I don't like flowers, I don't like machines, I don't like sugar, I don't like pepper, I don't like what you like.' This was addressed to whoever attacked Ernest.

we didn't really lose the war, the country just lost interest.

Who cares?" Sunnie

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.

After a short flurry of national and international concern over the "death of the Sun," the human race settled down to solving the insoluble problem in the best way that they knew - they ignored it and hoped it would go away.

You shouldn't play with fire in your own backyard." He smiled thinly. "Plus, there's a lot of apathy about Africa. Westerners like to say that's not true, but it is. Deception is easier when people don't care.

Flabby, bald, lobotomized,he drifted in a sheepish calm,where no agonizing reappraisaljarred his concentration on the electric chair—hanging like an oasis in his airof lost connections.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

I didn't feel like reading: I didn't feel like looking at other people's imaginary lives in flat black and white from out here in my only too unimaginably life.

Hemos fomentado una cultura de gente apática, débil, y delicada que es incapaz de cumplir promesas, que huye del compromiso y que renuncia a sus aspiraciones cuando surge el menor de los obstáculos.

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

The apathy, disconnection, or lack of self-esteem that causes students to disengage in school—to stop caring—is not inherent. It is learned behavior.

The guy who was standing said, "We don't want you here." Reacher said, "You're confusing me with someone who gives a shit what you want.

Oh." Dr. Houllier scratched the side of his head. "Then, what about these apes? You can't leave them on my floor. Especially not that big one. I treated him after one of his victims bit him and his arm got infected. He's called Mansour. He's a psychopath. What will he do when he wakes up and finds me? It's obvious I helped you.

Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care

Gleichgültigkeit! Gleichgültigkeit an die Stelle der Liebe? - Das heißt, Nichts an die Stelle von Etwas.

People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.