Quotes About Apathy

You're Ã¢â'¬Â¦ in Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Dol Ã¢â'¬Â¦ drums," wailed a voice that sounded far away.

No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. Because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. Day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. There was nothing to see at all.

Nothing really interested him—least of all the things that should have.

Every time he thought about it he became more convinced that there was nothing that was really true and even less in which to believe. So it was simpler not to care about anything, for in that way he was never disappointed.

I am a man who believes nothing, hopes nothing, fears nothing, feels nothing. I am beyond the pale of humanity [...]

He expressed by his action his indifference to money but he was not, Harriet now knew, indifferent to the lack of it.

It is the ship at the wharf, not the ship at sea, that rots fastest;—the

And anyway most people are idiots. They don't care about the why. They only care about what threatens them.

The war on apathy moved much slower than real wars fought on the ground.

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

That's so, said the judge. They do not have to have a reason. But order is not set aside because of their indifference.

Real trouble doesnt begin in a society until boredom has become its most general feature

He had never taken any interest in what came after death, either in this world or the other one. Probably just silence, silence without a single word of comfort.

I had spoken to the universe, and the universe hadn't given a damn.

the point of fake news isn't just to make it so that no one can tell what's true, it's to make it so that no one cares anymore, so that when you try to get all your friends to go out and march about something that they should already be thinking about, they're all like, 'Eh, is that even real?' Your enemies don't need people to disagree with you, they just need people not to care.

But I never thought of who he wasn't, I never had to explain or defend him to myself, I didn't even care what we talked about.

reason to do anything other than bypass and ignore. And

No opinions, no ideas, no real knowledge of anything, no ideals, no inspiration; a fat, slothful, querulous, greedy, impotent carcass; a stump, a decaying belly washed up on the shore... Always tired, always bored, always hurt, always hating.

Then there are the sort that are just dead inside. Dead. And they know it.

But the days passed, and expectations gave way to resignation—the hopeless resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled apathy.

He never really cared too much about mechanical things.

You're at the age where the rush of the job has passed and the grind of the job is taken in stride, and this is the time when you're wondering if it wouldn't be so bad if you just stopped giving much of a shit and rolled along doing as little as possible.