Quotes About Apathy

Everything that comes into Jean's view these days is met with this kind of abject indifference. She feels as thought she has exhausted her life's allotment of emotion, good and bad.

Ferranti's thoughts had been his. As before he had understood his remorse so now he understood the mental chains that had imprisoned him. The poor wretch could not move. Misery had become apathy and apathy had brought the inevitable paralysis of the will.

The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb.

I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired.

I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired. I walk through school and all I want to do is leave. I wake up in the morning and don't know why I'm here. I feel like I'm not real.

Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die." Kate to Will

I didn't feel anything watching him go. I didn't even wish I did.

I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired. I walk through school and all I want to do is leave. I wake up in the morning and don't know why I'm here. I feel like I'm not real. I feel like I died when everyone else on the plane did and I'm the only one who's noticed.

I want to care, but I don't.

She could make the bed, do the laundry, feed the dog. But she could not be bothered with any more meals. "What'll we have for supper?" Henry would ask, coming upstairs from the basement. "Strawberries.

Seneca's solution to life's inevitable cruelties was to withdraw. It was an increasingly attractive reaction in the later imperial age. The wise man must shun unnecessary human contact and connections, Seneca said. He must live within, and for, himself. He must cultivate the virtue of apatheia, literally an indifference to the fate of others—apathy even, in the last moment, to his own fate (faced by unjust accusations by the emperor Nero, Seneca and his wife chose suicide).

deflect any political challenge to established privilege and authority. The general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience" through a degraded mass culture, manipulative political elections (or "manufactured consent"), and a mind-numbing, conformist system of thought control via the mass media.4

Creo que en el mundo de hoy la única libertad posible es la indiferencia. Por eso seguiré viviendo con mi sable y mi caballo.

A mí no me mueve el amor por la humanidad, sino el desprecio hacia ella.

Lejanas, frías en lo alto, las estrellas parpadeaban indiferentes. Estaban acostumbradas a que los hombres se mataran entre sí.

Anda y que te den por culo. —Hoy ya no tengo tiempo, galán.

Tengo planes más atractivos: mujeres, cigarrillos, restaurantes. Cosas así. De modo que, puestos a ello, es mejor que mueran otros. Entonces

Apatía y resignación, son las palabras nacionales

Para Falcó, palabras como patria, amor o futuro no tenían ningún sentido.

In my room, I looked around at all the pieces of my life, neat and tidy on their little shelves, my clothes and books and telephones, my shoes and hair barrettes, and tried to care about them. Mine, mine, mine. But they were only things, things that could have belonged to anyone.

Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms; no pride; no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.

Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first learn to liberate their own minds from apathy and fear.

Senor d'Anconia said that you bore him, Mr. Taggart.

I ain't in the state of mind where I give a darn.