Quotes About Apathy

Stability can be a good thing, but it can also lead to apathy. I don't want to set that example for my children. I want them to believe in their dreams and to go after them. You do that by example.

How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.

Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.

A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.

I'm already in the late stages of advanced detachment where my mother is concerned. With a little practice I could feel that way about everyone.

Enthusiasm isn't really my thing.

The opposite of love isn't hate.  It's indifference, lethal neutrality, apathy.  You don't care. Instead of energy there's malaise, inertia. Instead of chemistry there's emptiness. Instead of substance there's frivolousness. The relationship is all but dead.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of 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.

She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.

The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all

Many are still out on the street, trying to find shelter for the night. Those who live in the choice apartments of the inner city have not flung open their doors to house the displaced. On the contrary, most of them bolted their locks, drew their shutters, and pretended to be out.

I´ve blown past Bitter and am already in the heart of Apathy.

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

Sorry, never been a car guy.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

It's indifference that breaks hearts, not love.

If I hate a person, then I must still love him as well.. For the insignificant ones, I don't hate.. I just lose interest and become indifferent..

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

another thought, far more revolutionary: "Maybe they just don't care!

what goes on in the sea is of no interest to the rock

can't see why I should concern myself with humankind at all.

Lethargy. It's a word I know, because it's in one of my father's favorite expressions. Lethargy breeds lethargy. It means the more you lie around doing nothing, the more you want to lie around doing nothing. Your limbs and your mind feel so heavy that it becomes a major effort just to lift your arm to channel surf.

I'm too old to rage against the system. I just whine at it.

There are few things he can stand less than a bunch of morons standing around looking at something that doesn't work and wondering who's going to fix it.