Quotes About Apathy

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

I don't actually care what you think, so it's perfectly okay.

If there's one thing I really distinguish in myself, it's my unlimited ability for getting tired of everything.

I was talking about Cady's hair," says Bonnie. "You don't have to tell her she looks dead." "It's okay," I tell Bonnie. "I don't actually care what you think, so it's perfectly okay.

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

It matter so little to the majority of living beings what the minority, that calls itself human, desires or decides.

And so with the mouldy artificial fruit, so with the bath water that began to stink, so with the defective rhymes that the poetry machine had taken to emit. All were bitterly complained of at first, and then acquiesced in and forgotten. Things went from bad to worse unchallenged. It was otherwise with the failure of the sleeping apparatus. That was a more serious stoppage.

I got over my wave of giving a shit and then regained my senses.

Jared couldn't follow the twists of this and didn't really care. "Do you mind if I hit the shower?

It doesn't matter, because it just doesn't matter.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

the masters, robed, gowned, their attitudes varying from indulgent ennui to virtual coma.

I soon discovered that they were absorbed in a silly kind of amorous correspondence with the girls of a neighbouring academy, but " what were all such toys to me?

As long as you keep on fighting the things you think are wrong, you're living. It isn't the evil people in the world who do the most harm. It's the sweet do-nothings that can destroy us.

a guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul. Therefore, an age without a sense of sin, in which people are not even sorry for not being sorry for their sins, is in a serious predicament. Likewise an age with a Christianity so eager to forgive that it denies the need for forgiveness. For such an age, therefore, Lent can scarcely be too long!

A guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul.' - Bread & Wine (day 5)

Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.

Although he has more leasure than almost anyone, the indifference ,appathy if one preferes, of the lower class person is such that he seldom makes even the simplest repaires to the place that he lives in. He is not troubled by dirt or dilapidation and he does not mind the inadequacy of public facilities such as schools, parks hospitals and libraries. Indeed, where such things exist, he may destroy them by carelessness or even by vandalism.

And Gallio, cared for none of those things.

Que gente! Que coisas! Que opiniões! Que vida! Sinto entre mim e o meu país a distância abismosa deste sentimento: o desprezo. (...) O silêncio é a única resposta possível.

He marveled at the indifference of the world, the way it kept on, despite everything.

After years of watching the comic face of nihilism, your children will come to respect nothing, love nothing, believe in nothing, and long for nothing.