Quotes About Apathy

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Is Snowden a good man or a bad man? I have no clue and even less interest.

I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.

The fucking world is falling apart and it still doesn't rate as an emergency. Do you really think they're gonna panic over us?

Well? If I must die, I must! The loss to the world will not be great; and I myself am already downright weary of everything. I am like a guest at a ball, who yawns but does not go home to bed, simply because his carriage has not come for him. But now the carriage is here... Good-bye!...

I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.

The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about.

Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy towards our work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great collective passion of our time.

Here he was, doing things he didn't care a damn about, and enjoying it.

Sabe que só o abraço da morte pode apaziguá-lo, esse abraço que ele preencherá com o corpo todo e com a alma inteira e onde enfim achará a sua grandeza; sabe que só a morte pode vingá-lo e acusar de assassínio os que o escarnecem.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

B?i trong th? giá»›i này, chuy?n gì cÅ©ng ???c tha th? trÆ°á»›c nên, cách ??y vô tâm, ng??i ta s?n sàng cho phép chúng x?y ra.

Yes," he agreed. "The more indifferent people are to politics, to the interests of others, the more obsessed they become with their own faces. The individualism of our time.

I think a lot of people, they don't love their jobs but they don't hate them enough to quit. So they're like, "Eh."

The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.

No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.

I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.

I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.

The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.

Give into hope, I say, for fear will only paralyze. It is better to life a life of love amidst the pain than a life of apathy.

To look at you and to feel nothing is the closure that I desire.