Quotes About Apathy

If others neither have goods we want nor can perform services we need, we make sure that they are at a safe distance and close ourselves off from them so that their emaciated and tortured bodies can make no inordinate claims on us.

In verlorenen Schlachten besteht die letzte Verteidigung in der Gleichgültigkeit.

him at all. He ignored Valls's

En las batallas perdidas, la última defensa es la indiferencia

was an emaciated character, pomade shining on moustache and hair, who oozed that belligerent apathy of those who turn their job into a platform for obstructing the lives of others.

It wasn't that she stopped being nice; she stopped being anything

The stars in their courses, never all that concerned with the welfare of the human race, tonight looked especially indifferent.

It's my husband. I think— I think he's a zombie." I smiled. "Believe it or not, I get this one a lot. Can you describe his behavior? Why do you think he's a zombie?" She huffed. "He doesn't do anything! He sits on the sofa all day watching TV and that's it.

Envious, cold, and lonely. The perfect ingredients for a nice homemade bitter pie.

In fact, the problem with having a family at all was that nobody noticed if you were dead or alive until dinner went unmade and they found your torso floating in the dirty water behind Ikea.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.

that belonged in the big pile of things that weren't my problem.

Whether it comes to media pressure or anything, I've become a bit laid back and actually not bothered.

I met Jay Z. I don't really care about all that though.

I don't think we'll ever be millionaires. I don't really think about the future.

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Die meisten Menschen interessieren einen wirklich nicht, habe ich die ganze Zeit gedacht, fast alle, denen wir begegnen, interessieren uns nicht, sie haben uns nichts zu bieten als ihre Massenarmseligkeit und ihre Massendummheit und langweilen uns dadurch immer und überall und wir haben naturgemäß für sie nicht das geringste übrig.

?ovje?anstvo se, tako se ?ini, napreže samo dotle dok mora o?ekivati zatupljene svjedodžbe s kojima može trijumfirati pred javnoš?u, a kad ima dovoljno takvih zatupljenih svjedodžaba u ruci, onda se zapusti.

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play

boredom is the coldest thing in the world.

Und das tat er oder glaubte es zun tun, oder glaubte es auch selber nicht recht, oder, noch bedenklicher, es fing an, ihm gleichgültig zu werden, ob er es tat oder nicht.