Quotes About Apathy

She really did not care. Not anymore. It was safer not to care.

His usual air of boredom and cynicism discouraged anyone from trying too hard to engage his attention.

The trick is not to care. I have a perfect indifference to winning.

as if I cared about something as useless as long division

Nada hay más doloroso para el espíritu humano, tras la excitación que provoca la rápida sucesión de los acontecimientos, como esa calma mortal de apatía y certidumbre que la sigue, y priva al alma de toda esperanza y temor.

He stood looking at her. She knew that he did not see her. No, she thought, it was not that exactly. He always looked straight at people and his damnable eyes never missed a thing, it was only that he made people feel as if they did not exist. He just stood looking.

She did not mind this new background; she was indifferent to the slums as she had been indifferent to the drawing rooms.

The prospect of experiencing pleasure was not worth the effort; he had no desire to experience pleasure.

No, Jim,' she said quietly, 'I guess I've never felt anything at all.

The houses stood like men in unpressed suits, who had lost the desire to stand straight:

He could not condemn them without understanding; and he could not understand. Did he like them? No, he thought; he had wanted to like them, which was not the same. He had wanted it in the name of some unstated potentiality which he had once expected to see in any human being. He felt nothing for them now, nothing but the merciless zero of indifference, not even the regret of a loss.

We are doomed Whatever days are left to us, we shall spend them alone. And we have heard of the corruption of solitude. We have torn ourselves from the truth which is our brother men, and there is no road back for us. and no redemption. We know these things, but we do not care. We care for nothing on earth. We are tired.

It was as if a volcano were cracking open, yet the people at the foot of the mountain ignored the sudden fissures, the black fumes, the boiling trickles, and went on believing that their only danger was to acknowledge the reality of these signs.

He felt nothing for them now, nothing but the merciless zero of indifference, not even the regret of a loss.

we do not care. We care for nothing on earth. We are tired.

A wall of the most effective soundproofing: indifference.

He was seeing the full extent of her failure—in the immensity of his own indifference. The droning stream of her insults was like the sound of a distant riveting machine, a long, impotent pressure that reached nothing within him.

had stood there silently, watching, without interest or purpose, like a chemical compound on a photographic plate, absorbing visual shapes because they were there to be absorbed, but unable ever to form any estimate of the objects of her vision.

am reminded of James Baldwin's claim that "Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

You must be under the mistaken impression that I care.

Indifference is exactly what cynical politicians want from you. They're counting on it. Their success depends on convincing you that your vote doesn't matter.

inaction and acrimony while the planet slowly burned.

Lynn gave him a half-hearted shrug.

Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.