142 quotes found
“Apathy's just a front. People offer it when there's something stronger hiding underneath. You have to work harder to tap into it, but then your performance has even more power.”
“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.”
“All the girls stared at me with hatred in their eyes. It was a big drama that had to be acted out. But deep down, nobody really cared. The other girls didn't care about Jennifer. Jennifer didn't ca...”
“Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight.”
“They say that wisdom comes from suffering. This is not true. Wisdom comes from having unconditional empathy for all mankind. Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on t...”
“Today, you can pick your own news. At no time has the world been this compatible with apathy.”
“Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down.”
“Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers.”
“I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.”
“Courage can't exist without action. Anything else is a lion without his roar.”
“One of the most terrifying questions of all might be, Will I unleash myself to live before death unleashes me from the ability to be unleashed? And in retrospect, maybe its not the question thats t...”
“Men have nothing in common with me--there is no point of contact; they have foolish little feelings and foolish little vanities and impertinences and ambitions; their foolish little life is but a l...”
“I stood there, watching her. The whole world was a dream, I realized. Everyone was acting in a bad soap opera. The whole world was one big FOX TV show.”
“Things will happen that you cant prevent, things will fall apart that you cant hold together, but ultimately youre shaping yourself and that final product speaks volumes about who you really are, n...”
“It was nice of her to want to believe the best about me. People tend to do that with the strangers they're fucking. If she wanted to think that apathy and independence were the same thing, good for...”
“Since total skepticism about ultimate beliefs is strictly impossible, in that no belief can be doubted except on the basis of some other belief, indifference is always in danger of giving place to ...”
“You can present the material, but you can't make me care.”
“The gut is the seat of all feeling.”
“When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.”
“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 someh...”
