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Quotes About Apathy

I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway.
~ Anne Frank
But when they get old we can't be bothered. We say they're going to die soon anyway. Wot's the point in spending time and money on them?
~ Anne Perry
Spiderwebs broken and torn in a wind that is indifferent to their beauty.
~ Anne Rice
Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.
~ Sebastian Junger
People have been indoctrinated so completely by their jobs that they don't want to know how something works, they're willing to accept that perhaps the laws of nature don't work as they expect, and by the way, can I have the remote?
~ Seth Godin
Sleeping is much safer than the nightmare I'm living. When I sleep I feel nothing and I do nothing and I see nothing and nothing matters and no one cares. There's no one to hurt or disappoint or notice when I'm low and I don't need to face anyone not anyone in the world or not even myself.
~ Shannon M Mullen
In the past few months, life had lost its sweetness and he'd lost his way. But no longer. Death was once again the enemy, his indifference and apathy drowned in a Cheshire pond.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Feelings of apathy as they relate to our relationships often stem from insufficiently paying attention to those around us.
~ Sharon Salzberg
People like to talk shit, but it's usually to justify their own apathy.
~ Shepard Fairey
No offense, Dorian. Oh, what the hell, take all the offense you want, it's not like I give a shit. (Savitar)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
For the record, we're not friends. (Stryker) For the record, I don't care. (Savitar)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
So what's it like to live without emotions? (Geary) It's hard. Imagine a world without taste. A world where you can see the colors and all, but you can't feel it. A beautiful clear day can never choke you up. A child's laughter doesn't make you smile. You don't look at a bunny and think 'how cute.' You feel absolutely nothing. It's like being wrapped in thick cotton all the time. (Arik)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.
~ Emily Bronte
Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.
~ Francine Pascal
This world we exist in is populated by people who have really shut themselves off from life.
~ Frederick Lenz
Insanity is coasting through life.
~ Morgan Freeman
At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"?
~ Peggy Noonan
But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
My life is so boring that your brains are going to melt and come out of your eyes.
~ Roz Chast
In fact, there's an entire universe out there that's pretty much indifferent to struggles that big, no matter how serious they've been in your life.
~ Sarah Polley
She wondered what she thought of herself, and came to the realization that she felt mostly indifference towards her entire life.
~ Steig Larsson
I'm not too sure if I have a very smart approach to revealing my life. Luckily, I doubt if many people really care about my life that much.
~ Stephin Merritt
Life was going on, and no one but a handful of people cared if I lived or died.
~ Kim Harrison
Nobody crossed him without a battle. He disliked almost everything, particularly his wife, his children, his neighbours, his church, his priest, his town, his state, his country, and the country from which he emigrated. Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the sun or the stars, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.
~ John Fante