Quotes About Apathy

The mechanistic age impended over an horizon not hostile, but silently indifferent.

Boredom, like hookworm, is endemic.

far too many people die with a heart thats gone flat with indiferance, and it surely must be a terrible way to go. Life will offer amazing oppurtunities, but we've got to be wide-awake to recognize them.

far too many people die with a heart that's gone flat with indifference, and it surely must be a terrible way to go. Life will offer us amazing opportunities, but we've got to be wide-awke to recognize them.

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

My residents don't know who a federal officer is or a local police officer or a county deputy or a state patroller. They don't know, and they don't care. It's all the same to them.

I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.

I'm sick of environmentalism.

The opposite of love isn't hate; it's indifference.

When any political movement loses all sense of self and has no unifying theory of government, it ceases to function as a collective rooted in thought and becomes more like fans of a sports team. Asking the Republican Party today to agree on a definition of conservatism is like asking New York Giants fans to have a consensus opinion on the Law of the Sea Treaty. It's not just that no one knows anything about the subject; they don't remotely care.

You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.

Sometimes I didn't even feel like getting out of bed. I took to wearing my days-of-the-week panties out of order. It could be Monday and I'd have on underwear saying Thursday. I just didn't care.

It seems to me the world is almost too black to behold," Gellhorn wrote Eleanor in February 1938. "Half of it is bullied and terrorized and debased by dictators and half of it is soppy with cowardice and sloth and selfishness.

Not my species, not my problem.

Wherever people feel safe (...) they will be indifferent.

It is passivity that dulls feeling.

People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling. The states described as apathy, moral or emotional anesthesia, are full of feelings; the feelings are rage and frustration.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing "we" can do—but who is that "we"?—and nothing "they" can do either—and who are "they"?—then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.

Wherever people feel safe—this was her bitter, self-accusing point—they will be indifferent.

Oh," said the Duke of Wellington, not much interested, "they are still complaining about that, are they?

You mean at my age, I should care?

Mirror, mirror on the truck Where she went, who gives a fuck?

It was clear that people were not rushing to the shelves. In fact, I'd never seen anybody in a library pick up a small literary journal.

You haven't entered a new age at all but one of upscale nihilism, deluxe nihilism.