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Quotes About Apathy

I kept a lid on my feelings at school but, when I was 18, dropped out of everything and couldn't even be bothered to get out of bed.
~ Roland Orzabal
Nothing really bothers me. I'm too engrossed in my own world to care less.
~ Riya Sen
I don't think people care what I had for breakfast.
~ Tom Bateman
All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.
~ Deborah Kerr
We're forfeiting our power if we succumb to apathy.
~ Camille Perri
I don't care about the Guggenheim. The Guggenheim isn't involved in anything that I am interested in. I don't care about motorcycles and Armani suits.
~ Chuck Close
I seem to be one of those people that's immune to Super Bowl fever. I may be a carrier, but I'm immune to it myself.
~ Paul F. Tompkins
The safest road to hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C. S. Lewis
~ Randy Alcorn
Mildred'?n yüzü, üstüne yaÄŸmur yaÄŸabilecek ama yaÄŸmuru hissetmeyen, karla kapl? bir ada gibiydi; bulutlar hareketli gölgelerini onun üstünden geçirebilirdi ama o gölgeleri hissetmiyordu.
~ Ray Bradbury
Allora non v'importa più di nulla? M'importa tanto, che ho la nausea di tutto.
~ Ray Bradbury
It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
~ Joseph Conrad
The man who can't do most things and won't do the rest
~ Joseph Conrad
All the pilgrims rushed out to see. I remained, and went on with my dinner. I believe I was considered brutally callous. However, I did not eat much.
~ Joseph Conrad
I remained, and went on with my dinner. I believe I was considered brutally callous. However, I did not eat much.
~ Joseph Conrad
Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence — but more generally takes the form of apathy...
~ Joseph Conrad
Perfino un profondo dolore può alla fine trovare sfogo nella violenza - ma più generalmente prende la forma dell'apatia.
~ Joseph Conrad
the danger, if any, i expounded, was from our proximity to a great human passion let loose. even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence, but more generally takes the form of apathy
~ Joseph Conrad
He could not make them understand that...having a good time bored him and was not worth the effort.
~ Joseph Heller
Aki már meghalt, annak édes mindegy, hogy ki nyeri meg a háborút.
~ Joseph Heller
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been demoted because he no longer gave a damn whether he missed or not. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.
~ Joseph Heller
There is no light. I don't feel like starting my generator. I used to get a big kick out saving people's lives. Now I wonder what the hell's the point, since they all have to die anyway.Dr. Stubbs Catch -22
~ Joseph Heller
Normally it was not until the latter half of a course that Gold lost interest in his subject matter and starting disliking his students. This term it was happening at the outset.
~ Joseph Heller
Not hearing impaired but just not hearing which is a way of not caring.)
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Some days, I wish the whole fucking world would just 'phone in sick.
~ Judith Fitzgerald