Quotes About Apathy

The world doesn't give even the slightest damn about us or our petty problems. We never quite get that, do we? Our lives have been shattered—shouldn't the rest of us take notice? But no.

We don't really care about others, except when convenient. Don't believe it?

Without the confidence to know our democracy is functioning properly, we risk more disillusionment, more cynicism, and even more public apathy toward the entire system.

There's a great public disinclination toward politicians.

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.

But I may be one who does not care Ever to have tree bloom or bear.

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature

The greatest threat to religion in any society is not persecution, but rather apathy born of irrelevance.

It is strange being at home I grow dull to little things.

To be curious about a thing you have to find something surprising in it, and I'm afraid that nothing surprises me any more.

Comme ils l'expliquèrent confusément, il y a deux façons de mourir : soit personne n'intervient et tout le monde s'en fout, ou alors quelqu'un essaye de faire quelque chose et n'y arrive pas. Ce n'est pas la même chose.

It was the members of the public who didn't seem to care what was happening on the streets around them, who hurried on by when they saw crimes being committed, too cowardly to intervene. Sometimes it seemed like the 'them' was everyone, and the 'us' was simply me, a lone copper engaged in a one-man battle against the injustices of the world.

I could have been a contender, if I'd cared enough.

Je kunt geen vergif drinken en daarmee iemand anders doden. Het doet hem niks als ik hem haat.

Perhaps the world s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

The House of Peers, throughout the war,Did nothing in particular,And did it very well.

The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.

At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.

Hate and love are very similar emotions. The opposite of love is you don't care.

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