Apathy Quotes

“And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“Himalayan Sonneteer Sonnet 3

What is the role of an electrical fuse?
Amateurs will say, conducting electricity.
But the actual task of a fuse is,
To blow itself when the load is too heavy.

Thus the fuse protects the appliance,
Against any electrical irregularity.
Likewise, we gotta blow our fuse,
Whenever inhumanity hangs heavy.

If we stay silent in indifference,
What's the point of all this electricity!
Nerves that carry not vigor but ice water,
Ain't no human nerves but sewers of society.

Human nerves are the life-circuit of society.
If they carry ice water, it is a catastrophe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“What is the role of an electrical fuse?
Amateurs will say, conducting electricity.
But the actual task of a fuse is,
To blow itself when the load is too heavy.

Thus the fuse protects the appliance,
Against any electrical irregularity.
Likewise, we gotta blow our fuse,
Whenever inhumanity hangs heavy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“I didn’t want to read it, but it was my strict policy never to disagree with people. Bitter experience had taught me that the minute you contradict someone, you instantly get sucked into their asinine private world. By avoiding arguments I wound up not talking to anyone. I lived utterly alone in my own asinine private world. Terribly alone and constantly crowded by idiots—that was my life. Rats gnaw off their feet with less provocation.”
― Stepan Chapman, The Troika

“Mind begins at the wake of chains,
Life begins at the wake of sect.
A hundred hajj won't make you holy,
If your heart is ever cold and dead.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Apathy isn't a private solution for a public problem

It's a coping mechanism”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“Only food haram is the food unshared,
Only kafir in cosmos is person apathetic.
Only being blasphemous is being bigoted,
Goodwill is godliness, wholeness holistic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Life begins where death ends,
Death ends where fear fades.
Fear fades where vision reigns,
Vision reigns where apathy ends.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Think for yourself. If you don’t, someone else will and you may not appreciate all of the thinking that they did for you.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The underestimation of one’s abilities is the most fertile womb within which to birth a defeat.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Not having a script for your life is having the worst kind of script for your life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Apathy is the act of depositing ideas into a bank of knowledge from which nothing is ever withdrawn.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Forgetting head, heritage 'n sanity,
I have placed you heartmidst.
I know not much prayer nor poetry;
When heart is frozen, all prayer is amiss.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Be the living hope in action,
Not a couched coward of inaction.
Crushing all cowardice of detachment,
Get involved bravely till annihilation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“What Hope Means (The Sonnet)

What do you think hope means,
To sit and do nothing!
Such is no hope but cowardice,
Real hope gets you walking.

Hope means to take charge,
Hope means unsubmission.
Hope means to not lose sight,
Hope means to cause illumination.

Life is what happens to the human,
Human is what happens to life.
Nature is what happens to the animal,
Human is the animal rising civilized.

I repeat, hope is no excuse for inaction.
Real hope brings emancipation from submission.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Hope means to take charge,
Hope means unsubmission.
Hope means to not lose sight,
Hope means to cause illumination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Mockery emboldens me,
Ridicule lifts me up.
Apathy invigorates me,
Treachery toughens me up.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“When world cries blood
(The Sonnet)

When world cries blood,
your blood ought to boil.
If you feel nothing at all,
you're a stain upon the soil.

Fire in blood you can't inherit,
Wake up to duty and ignite yourself.
Second hand souls boast bloodline,
Humans weave nobility with actions.

When the world cries blood,
backbone oughta spark thunder.
If you feel nothing at all,
file for a bankrupt character.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“When world cries blood,
your blood ought to boil.
If you feel nothing at all,
you're a stain upon the soil.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“When world cries blood,
your blood ought to boil.
If you feel nothing at all,
you're a stain upon the soil.

When the world cries blood,
backbone oughta spark thunder.
If you feel nothing at all,
file for a bankrupt character.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“When the world cries blood,
backbone oughta spark thunder.
If you feel nothing at all,
file for a bankrupt character.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Somnolence leads to obsolescence, obsolescence leads to extinction.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“I feel nothing," I wrote as my counter-thought, but there is no evidence that apathy is a dangerous state of mind. People go to yoga and spend thousands of dollars on meditation classes to learn how to let go and feel nothing. But I get to do it every day, For Free.”
― Patric Gagne, Sociopath

“Your dreams are only as far away as your refusal to live a mediocre life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Live as a lamp, not a lamb.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Moral nihilism is a very real risk of shattered endoreality. So is apathy.”
― Heather Marsh

“You’re probably where you’re at because you’re not sufficiently motivated by where you’re not.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Talk’ of change is the apathetic man’s way of convincing himself that the armchair of mediocrity is nowhere to be found in his house, and that he’s not sitting in it.”
― Craig D Lounsbrough

“It is time to own up, grow up, and man up. It is time to step out of the shadows of apathy and step into the adventure of being a man who can be counted on, a man who reflects a godly character, and a man who can lead and love sacrificially.”
― Basil Sparks, FINDING MY LOST VOICE: By Acting Justly, Loving Kindness and Walking Humbly with God

“Anger is better than apathy. Self-directed anger is self-abuse. Transmutation is the key, and if you are mindful, you will be able to move through these phases of pain even faster.”
― Calvin Niles, The Sun Rises in Eastmoor