#apathy

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

#apathy #inspiration #mediocrity #passiveness #success

We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing! ↗

— Paddy Chayefsky

#apathy #frustration #anger

If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#fame #pleasure #fun

Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me. ↗

— Banana Yoshimoto

#depression #kitchen #emotion

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

— Richard Yates

#mediocrity #comfort

A lot of you cared, just not enough. ↗

— Jay Asher

#suicide #tragedy #reason

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#apathy #apolitical #determinism #historical-determinism #history

Hating requires caring. In which case, I couldn't possibly hate you. ↗

— Alyson Noel

#hate

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. ↗