Quotes About Apathy

Rising to his feet he said, 'If the heir to the throne has been assassinated, well, first of all we know nothing for certain, and secondly, it doesn't concern us in the least.'…

It's easy to joke when you don't care any more. I'm not saying it didn't hurt me, because it did.

I don't pay much attention to sports.

I don't get involved with the music scene any more. It's just alien to me.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

Fill me in on the details of your life." "I thought you didn't give a shit." "It'll give me something to do while I wait for you to stab me to death.

At the other end of life are elders with severe dementia. The final stage of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases is marked by extreme apathy and exhaustion. Individuals cease speaking, gesturing, and even swallowing. Has their conscious mind permanently left its abode, a shrunken brain full of neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques?

Periclean Greeks employed the term idiotis , without any connotation of stupidity or subnormality, to mean simply 'a person indifferent to public affairs.' Obviously, there is something wanting in the apolitical personality. But we have also come to suspect the idiocy of politicization—of the professional pol and power broker. The two idiocies make a perfect match, with the apathy of the first permitting the depredations of the second.

Sei que não sou o único que não se importa nem um pouco se ilusões religiosas forem ridicularizadas, mas se fosse o único, ainda assim não daria a mínima.

That is what War is, I thought: two ships pass each other, and nobody waves his hand.

I like hearing the sound of your voice, but I don't care a bit what you're saying.

Injustice always captures the attention of the young,' she said. 'But as we get older we discover how difficult it is to change the world, and we learn to turn our eyes away from what we can't fix until we no longer see injustice at all.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

It was at this point that he realized that he felt no fear and that life had no value for him.

Nothing chills the heart like symmetry, for symmetry is ennui and ennui is at the heart of grief.

She is resigned, with that resignation resembling indifference as death resembles sleep.

What mattered was not caring. And the best way not to care was to surround yourself with noise and people.

so I put up with his controlling ways. What do I care

Teenage angst has paid off wellNow I'm bored and old.

Oh well, whatever, nevermind.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn about anyone else

but never really made an effort to talk to her. Never really felt the need. She wasn't my type, if I even had a type.

Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.