Quotes About Apathy

There are people like that, people who don't beat themselves up, don't take every little injustice personally. Those people, same callous fuckers that walk past a legless guy without a pause, those are the ones who win.

He had no interest in another person, in imagining what it might be like to be on the other side.

saw him as a saint. His attitude silenced me. From that moment on, if he had been brought back to me dead on a stretcher, I would not have cared. He cannot hurt me any more.

Volsky once more had the feeling that the bond between them was indifferent to the demise of bodies.

I have no appetite,' she sighed. 'Not for food, not for work. Not for anything.' I looked at her and wondered what I am except appetite.

But nothing was worse than nothing, and that was the sum total of indifference.

Debugging itself is a sensitive, emotional subject for many developers. Instead of attacking it as a puzzle to be solved, you may encounter denial, finger pointing, lame excuses, or just plain apathy.

El analfabetismo y la pobreza son discapacidades, como también lo son la imbecilidad, la obesidad y la apatía.

El analfabetismo y la pobreza son discapacidades, como también lo son la imbecilidad, la obesidad y la apatía. La fe es una discapacidad en la medida en que restringe el interés personal; el ateísmo es una discapacidad, puesto que es una coraza contra la esperanza. Incluso el poder puede considerarse una discapacidad por el aislamiento al que condena a quienes lo ejercen.

He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.

four E's on my report card this term and he didn't even care.

Hmmph. This was a sorry excuse for a baby-sitting club.

I an not happy. I am not unhappy. I am frozen somewhere in the middle that is so much worse. I am NOWHERE. Nothing is happening and I am getting more and more sad.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

ADIAPHORY  (ADIA'PHORY)   n.s.[Gr.]Neutrality; indifference.

Ellis had slept through the entire thing. That, or he was dead, but I saw no reason to check. If he was dead, he'd still be dead in the morning.

Fine, he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.

Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries.

Was it really this easy, once you escaped, to just not care?

In New York, when a tree dies, nobody mourns that it was cut down in its prime. Nobody counts the rings, notifies the loved ones. There are other trees. We can always squeeze in one more. Mind the tourists. It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't wanna live there.

In America, on the ordinate plane of faith versus reason, the x-axis of faith intersects with the y-axis of reason at the zero point of I don't give a damn what you think.

That was nothing to get excited about, as it was one of the commoner human experiences—neither to give a damn nor be given a damn about.

The most effective way to stop people from trying to persuade me is to say, 'I'm not interested.' You should try it. Don't offer a reason why you aren't interested. No one can say why a thing holds interest for some and not for others. There's no argument against a lack of interest.

People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.