Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.
I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.
When you open up to the ultimate, immediately it pours into you. You are no longer an ordinary human being - you have transcended. Your insight has become the insight of the whole existence. Now you are no longer separate - you have found your roots.
Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness.
We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.
Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper - and pessimistic - activism.
Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.
It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy
Sometimes success breeds apathy. Sometimes when you're doing quite well for yourself you're not as tough as you need to be.
I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better.
I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.
The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of apathy. ' I'm like, 'What?' I don't walk up to a friend and go 'That's a stylin' looking vortex of apathy you've got there pal. I was swimming up a river of deceit myself. '
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.
Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.
Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck.
