142 quotes found
“Even extreme grief may ultimately ventitself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy”
“I thought I would prefer apathy over this," I confided to her. "Why?" she asked. "Are you saying you would rather be cold than comforted? He's looking at you and offering his hand in friendship and...”
“Following the death of his wife, Sam Johnson wrote to the Reverend Mr. Thomas Warton, "I have ever since seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wilds of life, ...”
“Sorrow on another's face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness.”
“It was the face of a human being whod been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but wounds. The face of a person who could probably kill someone without feeli...”
“The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beingsand sometimes, that has to be at a distance.”
“When all that's left mediocrity and each day just bleeds into the next.”
“It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in mens dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for.”
“Choose empathy over apathy.”
“As a species, tragedy dwells within us all. We push it to the back of our thoughts, but it is never so far gone that it cannot return, crashing and writhing into our souls: a rogue wave overturning...”
“When sweet lullabies are whispered into the sky, my heart is filled with with the sorrow of time. So when the kiss of a midnight moon ends, drop sweet nothings to fill my ear. Too many years to be ...”
“I think that certain emotions can compromise you when youre at war. If you stop to mourn the dead, or even to breathe in what youve done, youll be dead as well. Your brain goes to a primitive regio...”
“...you want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so youre wounded by your own feelings & resentful others dont seem to care...”
“Hate isnt the opposite of love, apathy is. Hating doesnt 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 ...”
“Indifference is the worst kind of response when love is expressed. Hate is not the antithesis of love; its the nonexistence of feeling, a pervasive apathy. When hate is present, so is love. Its pas...”
“There are no good or evil people. There is only a great, unfathomable mob trampling itself underfoot. The life-giving sources of the old morality have dried up and vanished in the sands of oblivion...”
“The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and convictio...”
“Face itnobody cares.But so what? Their apathy doesn't diminish your worth. Learn from it. Make it your job to care for those around you so that they don't feel like nobody cares.”
“Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed.”
“Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling.”
