Quotes About Apathy

His lordship seemed quite changed; he no longer appeared that apathetic being who had so astonished Aubrey; but as soon as his convalescence began to rapid, he again gradually retired into the same state of mind, and Aubrey perceived no difference from the former man, except that at times he was surprised to meet his gaze intently upon him, with a smile of malicious exultation playing upon his lips: he knew not why, but his smile haunted him.

He was drained of feeling, and he felt very old and tired.

I'm not romancing. I'm talking about the inevitable time when, unless we do something to stop it, men will be hunting men through the ruins, for food. We're letting it drift towards that, with an evil irresponsibility, because with our ordinary short lives we shan't be here to see it. Does our generation care about the misery it is bequeathing? Not it. "That's their worry," we say. "Damn our children's children; we're all right.

He didn't seem to understand yet was that I didn't really care about the ways of Washington.

if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.

Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.

Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That's what most of my characters are like.

Do you want me to tell you what I give a shit about at age sixty-five', Cullen said, 'and what I don't give a shit about?' (page 262)

When we are tempted to give in to despair, to give up to self-indulgence or apathy, we have a place of refuge that will protect us from the attacks of a battered conscience

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

To tell the truth, I couldn't care less about the relativity of knowledge, simply because the world does not deserve to be known.

No one is responsible for what he is nor even for what he does. This is obvious and everyone more or less agrees that it is so. Then why celebrate or denigrate? Because to exist is to evaluate, to emit judgments, and because abstention, when it is not the effect of apathy or cowardice, requires an effort no one manages to make.

The dead center of existence: when it is all the same to you whether you read a newspaper article or think about God.

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M-am gândit iar??i c? în unele ??ri din America Latin? se spune despre cel r?posat de curând: «a devenit indiferent».

Am abuzat de cuvîhtul dezgust. Dar ce alt termen s? aleg pentru a indica o stare în care exasperarea e neîncetattemperat? de plictiseal?, iar plictiseala de exasperare ?

Le dernier pas vers l'indifférence est la destruction de l'idée même d'indifférence.Emil

El sufrimiento de los demás tiene sobre mí un efecto directo. Pero, si mañana desapareciera la humanidad, me daría igual.

Because to exist is to evaluate, to emit judgments, and because abstention, when it is not the effect of apathy or cowardice, requires an effort no one manages to make.

I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity

Ennui is the martyrdom for those who live and die for no belief

Sloth is a somatic scepticism, the way the flesh doubts.

Ennui is the martyrdom of those who live and die for no belief.