Quotes About Apathy

You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.

A nation of unimpressible philosophers would not care at all how the externals of life were managed. Who is the showman is not material unless you care about the show.

People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.

And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.

She was born smart. She's put her brain into neutral ever since, like everyone else in this place.

Falling short of self-destructive, her apathy toward the potential hazard was, given her internal upheaval, not unusual. Only later would she look back on her attitude as irresponsible; only later would she understand that she must have wanted something, anything to happen, to prove to herself that some part of her was still alive.

Teens had the world's best built-in poker face: a hormone-fueled, constant glare of bored contempt.

I don't know." And I don't. But I don't care. I don't care about anything. I can't believe that I'm standing here, talking to her.

I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care.

I'm realizing that a lot of people don't really care what happens to other people as long as it doesn't affect them.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

I have nine children. It breaks my heart to think that it might be their blood is needed to redeem something, to reclaim something that we, through our apathy and our indifference, have given away.

When I was 19, my heart wasn't in it. I hated training.

My wife hates football, and my kids don't really care.

It's healthier if you kind of just walk away from things and not really care about what happens.

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

I tell you I can't be bothered with things like that. I've got a soul above buttons.

They were one of those depressing families, so common among the middle-middle class, in which nothing ever happens

He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face toward the flames.

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked on as a matter of indifference.

And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.

He really didn't want his job. He didn't want to work again; all he wanted was to sink, sink, effortless, down into the mud.

It is difficult when you pass that way, especially when you are peacefully recovering from sea-sickness with the plush cushions of a boat-train carriage under your bum, to believe that anything is really happening anywhere. Earthquakes in Japan, famines in China, revolutions in Mexico? Don't worry, the milk will be on the doorstep tomorrow morning, the New Statesman will come out on Friday.