Quotes About Apathy

What I'm saying is nobody feels sorry for anybody anymore, nobody even pretends they do. Not even the President. It's like it's become unpatriotic.

She climbs down and pours half an inch of Jim Beam into a Bengals mug that came free with a tank of gas. Alice would just as soon get her teeth cleaned as watch the Bengals. That's the price of staying around when your heart's not in it, she thinks. You get to be cheerleader for a sport you never chose.

That's the great American disease, we forget. We watch the disasters parade by on TV, and every time we say: 'Forget it. This is somebody else's problem.

Students work to get good grades even when they have no interest in their studies.

There's little good in sedentary small towns. Mostly indifference spiced with an occasional vapid evil – or worse, a conscious one.

New York always brings out the serial killer in me. It's a great city to kill in. The best. You've got something like fifteen million people living cheek by jowl, and most of them couldn't give a damn about anyone else. No one wants to get involved. No one cares.

Doesn't matter," Maren said. "As long as the wolf enters the pen, who cares if it happens to eat the sheep?" Mac shook his head. "You can bet your ass the sheep cares.

She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.

Having few interests to sustain her, over the next few years she fell into a vacant, mental decline.

son lo seres humanos capaces de actos generosos, desinteresados, incluso heroicos? Desde luego. ¿Son asimismo capaces de actos despiadados de apatía? Desde luego.

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

I used to fuck stuff up like that all the time. I didn't see the big deal.

Neither the next day, nor the day after that, did M. Folantin's unhappiness dissipate; he simply let himself drift, incapable of resisting this crushing feeling of depression. Mechanically, under a rainy sky, he would make his way to his office; then he would leave it, eat, and go to bed at nine, only to resume the following day the exact same routine; little by little he slid into complete spiritual apathy.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Mr. S was finally retiring this year, which was a good thing, because he appeared to have run out of shits to give sometime in the previous century.

he appeared to have run out of shits to give sometime in the previous century. Today

My grades suffered. I didn't care.

I don't care if Spielberg directed it.

I don't care if Spielberg directed

because I knew there was a good chance it was going to end up getting me killed. But at this point, I no longer cared.

Christ, who the fuck cares, man?" Lex hissed back.

To be apathetic is literally to be without passion.

Next to want, boredom has become the worst scourge in our lives.