Quotes about Apathy

We were just so glad to finally have the war over, nobody seemed to care who had won. We didn't understand that peace at any price is a fool's bargain. We welcomed apathy with open arms, invited it over for dinner, offered it keys to the spare bedroom, then silently slept while it sneaked up behind and cut our throats.

This problem is pervasive within the community of believers: Christians don't know the content of their faith and show little concern about their ignorance. This

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?

Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn't get interested in leaving life or living it.

I never saw such crazy musicians. Everybody in Frisco blew. It was the end of the continent; they didn't give a damn.

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.

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

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

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.

She did not mind this new background; she was indifferent to the slums as she had been indifferent to the drawing rooms.