Quotes About Apathy

The reason I hadn't washed my clothes or my hair was because it seemed so silly.

I told Buddy how sorry I was about the TB and promised to write, but when I hung up I didn't feel one bit sorry. I only felt a wonderful relief.

Acontece que eu não estava conduzindo nada, nem a mim mesma. Eu só pulava do meu hotel para o trabalho e para as festas, e das festas para o hotel e então de volta ao trabalho, como um bonde entorpecido. Imagino que eu deveria estar entusiasmada como a maioria das outras garotas, mas eu não conseguia me comover com nada. (Me sentia muito calma e muito vazia, do jeito que o olho de um tornado deve se sentir, movendo-se pacatamente em meio ao turbilhão que o rodeia.)

Nothing. Nothing but a great, amiable boredom.

These girls looked awfully bored to me. I saw them on the sunroof, yawning and painting their nails and trying to keep up their Bermuda tans, and they seemed bored as hell. I talked with one of them, and she was bored with yachts and bored with flying around in airplanes and bored with skiing in Switzerland at Christmas and bored with the men in Brazil.

I guess I should have been excited the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

Without Christianity we might, of course, merely sink into an apathetic decline

Teach us to care and not to care

The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

There is nothing at all to be done about it, There is nothing to do about anything.

It's the same old story— 'Yes, it's too bad, but go suffer somewhere else. . . .

Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for.

You can smoulder in your own syrup from bow till Doomsday, you'll get nothing more from me.

Saffiro whitened and the sword began to lift. Leopardo, aware he could kill this one in two heartbeats, without fire, not wanting him, yawned.

I won't be alive so I won't care who finds me.

Like anyone cared where I was, or who I was.

am I to spend all the best part of my life in this wretched bondage, forcibly suppressing my rage at the idleness the apathy and the hyperbolical & most asinine stupidity of these fatheaded oafs and on compulsion assuming an air of kindness, patience & assiduity?

no sé por qué te cuento esto. –Porque sabés que no me importa, supongo.

I seem to be allergic to diligence

All was a ruin, yet the world did not seem to know or care. In

Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.

Die Schaulustigen, denen es egal war, was sie begafften. Einen Unfall. Einen Amoklauf. Einen zu Tode gelangweilten Filmstar.

I don't get involved in football! I haven't got a sporty bone in my body.

The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant.