Quotes About Apathy

so let the earthquake come, let it bury me and my sins, so who the hell cares? No good to God or man, die one way or another, a quake or a hanging, it didn't matter why or when or how.

So what's the use of repentence, and what do you care for goodness, and what if you should die in a quake, so who the hell cares? So I walked downtown, so these were the high buildings, so let the earthquake come, let it bury me and my sins, so who the hell cares? No good to God or man, die one way or another, a quake or a hanging, it didn't matter why or when or how.

Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.

So what's the use of repentance, and what do you care for goodness, and what if you should die in a quake, so who the hell cares? So I walked downtown, so these were the high buildings, so let the earthquake come, let it bury me and my sins, so who the hell cares? No good to God or man, die one way or another, a quake or a hanging, it didn't matter why or when or how.

Doesn't matter which is which," he said cheerfully. "They're both idiots.

Wat kan mij zijn pijn schelen?' snauwde Maddie. 'Ik vind het een fijne pijl.

There are but a few that look on themselves as concerned at all, just like a company of simple sheep in a fat pasture. The butcher comes and fetches one today, another tomorrow. The rest feed on and take no notice of what is become of their lost companions. 'Tis as if a company of condemned persons (reprieved for a time) should be appointed to be executed one after another...

Habit, routine, our daily humdrum apathy and indifference, this is the shield we put between us and reality, the shield with which we protect ourselves from life while we are engaged in the business of living. It is the function of the arts to pierce that shield, to re-awaken in us a forgotten knowledge.

I'm sixty-nine years old, and I have no plans to run for reelection. Do you think I give a damn?

My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.

But seeing and doing nothing isn't the worst thing," Hera had said. "The worst thing is to see and not to care.

The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did...To Mr Phillips, the fact of others' indifference has never brought any comfort.

Politics is not really my thing.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

hate was not the opposite of love. Indifference was the opposite of love

This house didn't feel like poverty, just like a house owned by white people who'd stopped caring.

Even if Tellun himself bounded in here with party hats, I'm not sure there would be any reason to celebrate.

She had a vague distaste for death, which was just sufficiently stronger than her apathy to preserve her existence.

The Mebd is unimpressed by suffering.

Not even a dive bar in sight, just a long dingy curve of corridor with fibrous gray carpeting institutionalizing it further.

As for Thomas, the longer he lived, the less he cared for the world.

That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.