307 Quotes About Apathy

I don't have to be a monster to hurt people. I can do it gently, with a single careless breath.

In the course of a lifetime a series of uncomfortable adventures that shape your character and give you stories to look back and laugh about isn't a disaster. A disaster is a series of unmemorable weeks, months, or years that leave you unchanged.

Although he longed to see Louise, and to see Aleph, he increasingly lacked the will to go.

...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

I’m not looking for a road to walk. Rather, I’m looking for a path to create. For creating a path shapes men, while walking a road simply appeases them.

I pour blood on my naiveté, your apathy, and your betrayal tonight.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

I have never walked the broad byways of life without eventually regretting the fact that I foolishly bypassed those slight paths obscured by the tangled overgrowth of life. For in doing so I swapped adventure for apathy.

I concluded that the best thing for me and for those around me was to want nothing, to be enthusiastic about nothing, to be as unmotivated as possible, in fact, so that I would never again hurt anyone.