#apathy

Hate isn’t the opposite of love, apathy is. Hating doesn’t free you from feeling anything. You have to carry it around, using every scar, every little memory like a building block. Like a stone in a wall, until you’ve created a new person, a new life that you can live with. ↗

— Rasmenia Massoud

#feeling #hate #life #love #reinventing-yourself

Indifference is the worst kind of response when love is expressed. Hate is not the antithesis of love; it’s the nonexistence of feeling, a pervasive apathy. When hate is present, so is love. It’s passion gone sour and fueled by pain, but, nonetheless, it’s passion and love is apparently still alive. Yet when indifference seeps into our spirits, an emotional numbness and permitted scotoma takes the place of any passion – whether it’s love or hate – and resigns in a new state of being. ↗

— M.B. Wilmot

#hate #indifference #love #love

If there's anything you care to know, get fond of it. Before you know it, you know it, without even knowing it. ↗

— Igbinovia Ixrael

#humor #inspirational #inspirational

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#apathy #compassion #images #communication

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#boredom #cynism #ennui #humor #death

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

— Tanith Lee

#intelligence

There's so much I should say, so many things I should tell him, but in the end I tell him nothing. I cut a line and my losses, and I light a cigarette. ↗

— Clint Catalyst

#apathy #ennui #loneliness #love-lost #love

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#aroused #carrying #definite #enthusiasm #first

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

#applying #doubt #fear #feel #key

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. ↗

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

#flicker #his #history #horror #indignation