Top 92 Apathetic Quotes
#1. Gen Y is depicted as self-centred and apathetic when it comes to politics, but it doesn't help that we are largely overlooked. There have been policies to woo parents, pensioners and the sick, but the young do not appear to rank high on any political agenda.
Alexandra Adornetto
#2. Kill the imagination and you kill the soul. Kill the soul and you're left with a listless, apathetic creature who can become hopeless or brutal or both.
Marion Woodman
#3. Being smart takes patience. Being wise takes pain. Being apathetic takes practice. Being in love takes everything ... away.
Dave Matthes
#4. The absolute worst thing you can do in a scene is be apathetic.
Del Close
#5. By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded ... and wounded.
Ann Voskamp
#6. They're weak, petty, so apathetic about this gift of life as if it were all a mere Pepsi commercial.
Marisha Pessl
#7. Under a system in which no single question is submitted to the electorate for direct decision, an ardent minority for or against a particular measure may often count for more than an apathetic majority.
Patrick, Baron Devlin
#8. She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play
Thomas Hardy
#9. We live in a pretty apathetic age, yet we're surrounded by an enormous amount of information about other people. If you feel like it, you can easily gather that information about them. Having said that, we still hardly know anything about people.
Haruki Murakami
#10. ...no worship is better than apathetic worship.
Francis Chan
#11. Satisfied customers are apathetic. Loyal customers will be your advocate.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#12. The ancient dream of man to fly among the stars and go through the could and look down on the lands and seas has degenerated in its realization to the socialized and apathetic behavior of passengers who hardly look out the windows.
Paul Goodman
#13. Both Stoicism and Epicureanism - . the apathetic acceptance of defeat, and the effort to forget defeat in the arms of pleasure - were theories as to how one might yet be happy though subjugated or enslaved;
Will Durant
#14. Kids today do nothing. They're so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All they do is shop and complain.
Douglas Coupland
#15. It is possible to feel angered by the compromises all around us, while remaining apathetic to the compromises inside us.
Stephen Davey
#16. They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer
Bill Hicks
#17. Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world
Mitch Albom
#18. If we do something we hate, dislike, or simply feel apathetic about, all five days of our week will be stressful, unhappy or, in the best case, mediocre. Is
Zoe McKey
#19. The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#20. To avoid the cost incurred in pursuing great things we opt for ease and blithely abandon great things. The sheer recklessness of such a pathetically apathetic trade-off will eventually cost us a life squandered, which in the end is the greatest cost of all.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#21. Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.
Honore De Balzac
#22. in hours after the disaster
at least 25% of the population maybe stunned and dazed apathetic wandering suffering from the disaster syndrome
especially if impact has been sudden and totally devastating
at that point psychologically first aid and triage
are necessary
Beverly Raphael
#23. When employees are working to attain passion and progress in every area of life, the are less likely to be cynical or apathetic.
Michael Hyatt
#24. As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
Noam Chomsky
#25. We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built on their vision ... not one that succeeds in making apathetic students satisfying minimal standards.
Seymour Papert
#26. Time is truly apathetic to the many to whom a little empathy would mean so much.
~"Disarming (Reign of Blood #2)
Alexia Purdy
#27. Every day is a new opportunity to earn the lost values, but not for an apathetic.
M.F. Moonzajer
#29. Don't be fool's, don't be complacent, and stop being apathetic.
David Pratt
#30. To cling to the past is guaranteed suicide. To remain apathetic is assured enslavement. To learn the truth and then act on it is the only means of survival at this moment.
Milton William Cooper
#31. Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.
Chelsea Clinton
#32. Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
Rollo May
#33. Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
Pericles
#34. Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,
whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,
is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#35. I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world ... that's motherhood.
Cass Elliot
#36. I am beginning to respect the apathetic days. Perhaps they're a necessary pause: better to give in to them than to fight them at your desk hopelessly; then you lose both the day and your self-respect. Treat them as physical phenomena
casually
and obey them.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#37. What is that apathetic being doing?' she demanded, pushing the thick entangled locks from her wasted face. 'Has he fallen into a lethargy, or is he dead?
Emily Bronte
#38. We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavoring to meet it halfway, we easily become indirect and apathetic.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#39. Too often we don't call out a wrong or expect ourselves or others to act with routine integrity, excellence, or love. There has been a worldwide failure in leadership, birthing an apathetic populace, unjustifiable poverty, unconscionable greed, and a globe ravaged and booby-trapped by war.
Brendon Burchard
#40. Take a nation, tell the people there is no God, tell them there is nothing beyond the grave, and they will lose heart, lose their morale. They will become such a shiftless, lazy, apathetic, lethargic people that you won't be able to get half of them to work. Many will not be motivated by anything.
Shelton Smith
#41. I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.
Scott Weiland
#42. Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.
Joyce Meyer
#43. A guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul.' - Bread & Wine (day 5)
Edna Hatlestad Hong
#44. We [ Desaparecidos] try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic.
Conor Oberst
#45. Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.
Ralph Chaplin
#46. During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to press their demands.? The naive might call that democracy, but that's because they don't understand. The sophisticated understand that that's the crisis of democracy.
Noam Chomsky
#47. I had lost all perspective; I was wandering in a desperate purgatory (with a gray man in a gray boat in a gray river: an apathetic Charon dawdling upon a passionless phlegmatic River Styx ... and a petulant Christ child bawling on the train ... ).
Sylvia Plath
#48. In life when we feel we have reached a limit, that is when the true battle begins. Just when you despair and think it is impossible to go any further, will you become apathetic, or will you say it's not over and stand up with an unyielding spirit? The battle is decided by this single determination.
Daisaku Ikeda
#49. A world no longer of haves and have-nots, but of the engaged and the apathetic.
James S.A. Corey
#50. The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
David Sarnoff
#51. Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move.
Shannon L. Alder
#52. Apathetic in my adolescence,
my heart is fluorescent. It flickers
like liquor store lights in the ghetto.
Kris Kidd
#53. I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.
Jo Brand
#54. When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
Jesse Jackson
#55. Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant's throne.
Philip Slater
#56. Are you apathetic toward the saccharine goodness evangelized by sentimental, superstitious fanatics, but equally bored by the intellectuals who worship at the empty-headed shrine of scientific materialism?
Rob Brezsny
#57. Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.
Jo Brand
#58. A rose without its thorns would be too perfect to be admired.
Similarly, people without imperfections would be apathetic.
Chirag Tulsiani
#59. I say "illusion" of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of merely perfunctory activity. For the most part, their desires are not too strong, they are too weak, apathetic and easily placated. They often can be tempted into doing Nothing.
Geoffrey Wood
#60. To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.
Marcus Aurelius
#61. The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.
Franz Grillparzer
#62. I was too apathetic to be bored or anxious. Boredom and anxiety were the neurotic cousins of concern; they implied wishes. I had no wishes or wants. I didn't even want dope. I only needed it.
Ellen Miller
#63. Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.
William Earl Maxwell
#64. Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#65. No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.
Anthony Marais
#66. It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need.
Shannon L. Alder
#67. Legacy media accuses young people of being apathetic while actively attempting to remove them from the discussion.
Hank Green
#68. Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay.
John Muir
#69. But trying to use willpower to overcome the apathetic sort of sadness that accompanies depression is like a person with no arms trying to punch themselves until their hands grow back. A fundamental component of the plan is missing and it isn't going to work.
Allie Brosh
#70. Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description. You see whether someone is strong or weak, principled or apathetic, heroic or villainous.
(J.R. on writing the BDB series)
J.R. Ward
#71. Being a geek is a great thing. I think we're all geeks. Being a geek means you're passionate about something and that defines your uniqueness. I would rather be passionate about something than be apathetic about everything.
Masi Oka
#72. As a culture, we are particularly adept at transitioning from apathetic to panicked at a moment's notice.
Kathryn Miles
#73. I don't know, apathetic bloody planet, I've no sympathy at all.
Douglas Adams
#74. Boredom is merely a symptom of an apathetic soul.
Tim
#75. By the 1970s, the American woman was being called 'liberated' or 'superwoman' while the American man was being called 'baby killer' if he fought in Vietnam, 'traitor' if he protested, or 'apathetic' if he did neither. Even men who came home paraplegics were literally spit on.
Warren Farrell
#76. We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic.
Kevin Costner
#77. The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.
L. Ron Hubbard
#78. April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.
Franz Kafka
#79. Some people think I'm completely uninterested. Dismissive. Apathetic ... ."
"Heh." His weight settled atop me. "I don't know how you were with your other lovers, but ... . People see what they want to see. Or completely miss things when they're too busy looking for flaws.
Santino Hassell
#80. The crisis of democracy as when normally passive and apathetic populations become organized and seek to enter the political arena to pursue their interests and demands, threatening stability and order.
Noam Chomsky
#81. People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.
Daphne Zuniga
#82. It was a strange trek - the sullen leading the apathetic, followed by the confused, all tailed by the inveterately amused.
David Brin
#83. God does not suffer out of deficiency of being, like created beings. To this extent he is 'apathetic'. But he suffers from the love which is the superabundance and overflowing of his being. In so far he is 'pathetic'.
Jurgen Moltmann
#84. I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
Martha Graham
#85. The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives and be made an object of scorn just to get the point across. Did they really think I'd rather be camping by a polluted river than sitting in my own flat with my things about me?
Jeanette Winterson
#86. We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#87. Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#88. I might define a 'journey' as something that life itself calls me to. And I might then define a 'trip' as something I create to avoid a journey by mimicking a journey. And while fear is most certainly part and parcel of both, the latter is emboldened by fear while the former surrenders to it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#89. Apathy is unconditional surrender where we are driven into hiding by unrealistic fear, and firmly held there by the misinformed belief that we are helpless to do anything other than hide. Therefore, apathy survives solely on lies and can be completely abated by truth.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#90. Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.
Suzy Kassem
#91. Apathy. What's hard to understand? They don't care. Not until it affects them.
Donna Lynn Hope
#92. For some there is no music
No lights
No fire
No untamed madness that breathes life
There is work
Anguish
Frustration
Rage
Despair
A dullness that rings like wooden thunder
Henry Rollins
