Quotes About Apathy

Goldman Sachs doesn't care if you raise chickens.

the "imperial dispositions of disregard": that which makes it possible—sometimes effortlessly and sometimes with strenuous if unremarked labor—to look away.

As for the environment, that too, would object, backing up the pessimism of its people, which was what happened where I lived where the whole place always seemed to be in the dark. It was as if the electric lights were turned off, always turned off, even though dusk was over so they should have been turned on yet nobody was turning them on and nobody noticed either, they weren't on.

Don't you like the sea any more?' she asked. [...] 'No,' said the man. 'I don't think so. I think I hate it.' But then, feeling the hollow, vague coldness inside the glass, and going away from the sea, there was nothing at all left and nothing mattered at all. 'I don't feel anything about it,' he said. 'I don't feel anything about anything.

Some sang because they were afraid not to sing. But quite a few of them simply didn't listen to the words or weren't interested in them. Indeed, many of those who clapped at the leaders' speeches, or who mouthed slogans at meetings, or who marched in May Day parades did so with a certain odd ambivalence.

Silence in the shell of a city, no baby crying, no car honking, no ambulance shrieking, no lovers moaning, no drunks throwing up in the alley, no lights, nothing but wind and rain and snow in its season and rust and a rattling of open doors and carcass smell. It was a possibility like a brain tumor or a scorpion bite.

She just eyed them coolly, as if they were nothing to her, as if their nothingness surprised and slightly repelled her.

This book will bring little joy to the reader.

en realidad a todo el mundo le daba igual cómo se viviría dentro de cuarenta años, solo querían llegar vivos.

We are all prone to be a little selfish, a little lazy.

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.

The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.

I can't exactly describe how I feel but it's not quite right. And it leaves me cold.

Well, there I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care.

I don't give a damn about you now, but it was a new experience for me and I felt a little dizzy for a while.

He felt so intensely about people that in moments of apathy he preferred to remain concealed; that one could parade a casualness into his presence was a challenge to the key on which he lived

founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from

Well, there I was, 'way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care.

that we now existed in an apathy which was almost peace, like that of the blind unsentient earth itself which dreams after no flower's stalk nor bud, envies not the airy musical solitude of the springing leaves it nourishes.

I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.

I'm losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.

My boredom with everything has numbed me.