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Quotes About Apathy

In the hot, slow time of day when time and sun and thought slow to a dragging, shallow, pale crawl, there is the sound of heat. The grasshoppers and crickets sing and whine. Drying grass crackles. Dogs pant. There is the sound of breath and breathing, of an entire world collapsed under the apathy of the tropics.
~ Alexandra Fuller
No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo
~ Alexandre Dumas
She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.
~ Donna Woolfolk Cross
She knew he was watching her and she didn't care. She expected it.
~ Dorothy B. Hughes
You shouldn't ask me whether I like him or not. The way you mean it, I don't suppose I like anybody.
~ Dorothy Baker
There was no attack on religion because people were generally indifferent to religion. They were neither hot nor cold. They were the tepid, the materialistic, who hoped that by Sunday churchgoing they would be taking care of the afterlife, if there were an afterlife. Meanwhile they would get everything they could in this.
~ Dorothy Day
In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Coolidge is dead" "How could they tell?
~ Dorothy Parker
If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
~ Dorothy Parker
My heart wasn't in it.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Europe today has little desire to reproduce itself, fight for itself or even take its own side in an argument.
~ Douglas Murray
Harry Yeah I called her up, she gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something, I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention.
~ Dumb & Dumber
Disempowerment - whether defined in terms of a lack of self-confidence , apathy, fear, or an inability to take charge of one's own life - is perhaps the most unrecognised problem in Africa today.
~ Wangari Maathai
I shut myself off to make life bearable. I'm like a damn machine sometimes. Unfeeling. Uncaring. Emotionless.
~ Monica Murphy
The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference
~ Elie Wiesel
My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing so; but there was no real life in me.
~ Leo Tolstoy
And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.
~ Charles Dickens
Boredom is the deadliest poison.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
Things Isabella Wouldn't Care About: - Titanic sinking again. - Metror striking Earth and landing directly on top of world's most innocent panda. - Titanic sinking again and this time the entire crew is puppies.
~ Jim Benton
I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
~ Jimmy Wales
young physician obviously didn't give a damn anymore. Her cynicism
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
He knew it. He just didn't care, and a man who'd stopped caring was dangerous as fuck.
~ Joanna Wylde
He glanced over to the stage, where a nearly naked woman gyrated lifelessly around the pole. She could've been cleaning toilets for all the enthusiasm she showed.
~ Joanna Wylde
The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.
~ Joanne Harris