Apathy Quotes

Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable

— John Stott

The lack of emotion, lack of concern, and excitement is called apathy. The most basic requirements of any relationship are the emotional connection with each other or the concern for each other. When someone lacks these basics, he not only harms the person who cares but also slowly detaches themselves from their loved one. This essentially leads to lose the purpose of life and make people equal to monsters.

Apathy is the enemy of progress

“Apathy is a trap. There is no challenge… so there is no reward. Remember, there is always free cheese in a mousetrap.”

— Steve Maraboli


“After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.”

? Terry Eagleton

“It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need”

? Shannon L. Alde


“Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.”

? Shannon L. Alder


“The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.”

? James Truslow Adams


“Apathy perishes us, while Sympathy empowers us.”

? Ghassan Shahrour MD,


“Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.”

– Dan Millman


Ignorance and Apathy Quotes

“I would rather be attacked than unnoticed.
For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.”

— Samuel Johnson


“Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence, but more generally takes the form of apathy”

? Joseph Conrad

“You can present the material, but you can’t make me care.”

? Bill Watterson


“Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.”

? Suzy Kassem


“It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one’s existence.”

? Tanith Lee


“In an apathetic world, change is not about the fact that we actually changed something. Rather, it’s far more about the fact that we actually decided to change something.”

? Craig D. Lounsbrough


“When we live in a state of apathy, the desire for adventure intensifies to become the force that pushes us into a new page of being.”

? Chaker Khazaal


Apathy is a Disease

It’s a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares anymore;
nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

— Richard Yates


“Apathy is the self-defence of the powerless.”

– Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.”

– Helen Keller


“Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.”

– John Stott


“Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.”

? Aristotle

“It’s a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn’t really care what you have to say.”

? David Levithan


“In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.”

– William Bernbach


Indifference and Apathy Quotes

“Bad people are less of a problem than indifferent people.”

— Gerhard Kocher


“A lot of you cared, just not enough.”

? Jay Asher

“Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.”

– Emiliano Salinas


“Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.”

– Mason Cooley


“Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; the indifference of evil is worse than evil because it is also sterile.”

– Elie Wiesel


“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”

– J.K. Rowling


“The worst sin… is… to be indifferent.”

– George Bernard Shaw