apathy

I thought I would prefer apathy over this," I confided to her. "Why?" she asked. "Are you saying you would rather be cold than comforted? He's looking at you and offering his hand in friendship and you're rudely looking away pretending not to notice. At least with him you wouldn't be so alone." I felt my eyes turn into colorless pools as I glared at her for stating the obvious. "Being numb to someone is better than feeling something," I explained. "Safer you mean," she interrupted. I sighed and continued, "When someone who was once significant in your life comes back after an extended absence, emotions you had finally freed yourself from are reawakened, and if that's not enough to contend with, dormant memories are summoned whether you want them to be or not." "And what is it that you want?" she posed triumphantly. I swallowed my anger and thought with defeat, "Nothing anyone can give me.

When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.

You can present the material, but you can't make me care.

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

Most of us have no real loves and no real hatreds. Blessed is love less blessed is hatred but thrice accursed is that indifference which is neither one nor the other.

The only menace is inertia.

Once conform once do what others do because they do it and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

The true opposite of love is not hate but indifference. Hate bad as it is at least treats the neighbour as a thou whereas indifference turns the neighbour into an it a thing. This is why we may say that there is actually one thing worse than evil itself and that is indifference to evil. In human relations the nadir of morality the lowest point as far as Christian ethics is concerned is manifest in the phrase T couldn't care less.'

If moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime.

Communists have committed great crimes but at least they have not stood aside like an established society and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

What makes life dreary is want of motive.

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.