Quotes About Apathy

Los hombres no significan nada para mí, en ninguna parte.

I also knew Grenville was a man easily bored.

Three Plagues of nursing home existence: boredom, loneliness, and helplessness.

which didn't do much of anything

Wanting to want something isn't the same as wanting it. I suppose what I really wanted, then, was to give more of a shit, because about certain things, I simply did not.

She felt a bored indifference toward the immediate world around her...She took it as a regrettable accident, to be borne patiently for a while, that she happened to be imprisoned among people who were dull.

He had not liked the things taught to him in college. He had been taught a great deal about social responsibility, about a life of service and self-sacrifice. Everybody had said it was beautiful and inspiring. Only he had not felt inspired. He had felt nothing at all.

now, be happy. But I'm not. I feel nothing. When I 'm honest with myself, I know that the only emotion I've felt in years is being tired. Not physically tired. Just tired. It's as if…as if there were nobody there to feel any more. But that's not all. There's something much worse. It's doing something horrible to me. I'm beginning to hate people…

They don't even have a modern government. It's the worst government in any state. The laziest. It does nothing—outside of keeping law courts and a police department. It doesn't do anything for the people. It doesn't help anybody.

Incredulity and indifference were her only reaction: incredulity, because she could not conceive of what would bring human beings to such a state —indifference, because she could not regard those who reached it, as human any longer.

Apathy robbed me of the strength even to despise myself.

I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist.

But after a while, the whole thing just wasn't interesting to him anymore, and he ran out of things to keep himself numb.

Éramos demasiado jóvenes para saber que al conductor no le importaban nuestras canciones.

Nature did not seem cruel to him then, nor kind, nor dangerous, nor wise. But she was not interested, completely not interested.

I found it all about as arousing as a Tupperware party.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know.

Too stupid to know better, too old to care much," said Charles.

Shit don't mean shit

He didn't know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn't care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That's the solution.

It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You'.

It would not do to tell other people, not just because they wouldn't believe but because they wouldn't care.

Life has always been a series of the same choices: enslavement, apathy or freedom.

there is no understanding between me and this worldthey don't understand me and i don't care them.