Quotes about Apathy

Familiarity breeds indifference.

There was no attack on religion because people were generally indifferent to religion. They were neither hot nor cold. They were the tepid, the materialistic, who hoped that by Sunday churchgoing they would be taking care of the afterlife, if there were an afterlife. Meanwhile they would get everything they could in this.

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

He was in an eddy again, a deep, lethargic gulf, without desire to work or write, love or dissipate.

Well, there I was, 'way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care.

It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

I care so much about everything that I care about nothing

Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.