Quotes About Apathy

Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.

Pouco me importa. Pouco me importa o quê? Não sei: pouco me importa.

Let's adopt all the poses and gestures of something we aren't and don't wish to be, and don't even wish to be taken for being. Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us. [23](Zenith trans.)

I am no pessimist. Happy are those who can make of their suffering something universal. I don't know if the world is sad or bad, nor do I care, because I feel bored and indifferent in the face of other people's suffering. As long as they don't cry or moan — which I find irritating and embarrassing —I greet their suffering with a shrug of the shoulders, so deep is my disdain for them.

It's like being intoxicated with inertia, drunk but with no enjoyment in the drinking or in the drunkenness.

Yes, tedium is boredom with the world, the malaise of living, the weariness of having lived; in truth, tedium is the feeling in one's flesh of the endless emptiness of things.

Il Destino è come una persona che smette di importunarci quando si accorge che non diamo importanza a ciò che fa.

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il Destino è una specie di persona, e smette di tormentarci se mostriamo indifferenti a quello che ci fa.

a tedium of feeling anything at all ...

Amigos, nenhum. Só uns conhecidos que julgam que simpatizam comigo e teriam talvez pena se um comboio me passasse por cima e o enterro fosse em dia de chuva

El tedio no es la enfermedad del aburrimiento por no tener nada que hacer, sino la enfermedad más grave de sentir que no vale la pena hacer nada.

Tedium … To suffer without suffering, to want without desire, to think without reason … It's like being possessed by a negative demon

No, we don't feel anything. We consciously pass through the door we have to enter, and the fact we have to enter it is enough to put us to sleep.

Yo no sé si el mundo es triste o malo, ni siquiera me importa, porque el sufrimiento de los demás me resulta aburrido e indiferente. Siempre que no lloren o se lamenten, cosa que me irrita y molesta, su sufrimiento no me despierta ni un encogerme de hombros, tan profundamente me pesa mi desprecio por ellos.

Fictions of the interlude, covering with color the apathy and idleness of our own disbelief.

Tens um livro que não lês, Tens uma flor que desfolhas; Tens um coração aos pés E para ele não olhas.

The world belongs to the unfeeling. The essential condition for being a practical man is the absence of any sensitivity

il Destino è una specie di persona, e smette di tormentarci se ci mostriamo indifferenti a quello che ci fa.

The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care.

All day Joy sat on her neck in a deep chair, reading. Sometimes she went for walks but she didn't like dogs or cats or birds or flowers or nature or nice young men. She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.

Mr. Shiftlet said that the trouble with the world was that nobody cared, or stopped and took any trouble.

I'm not a fan of baseball really.

It's important for me to let my fans know I really don't care. I'm confident.