There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

…you want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you’re wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don’t seem to care…

Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.

One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper was not hostile; he was not opposed to them, but his...

…the opposite of love is not hate — it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must “feel” something … or they couldn’t possibly hate. Therefore, there’s some way in which...

I think that certain emotions can compromise you when you’re at war. If you stop to mourn the dead, or even to breathe in what you’ve done, you’ll be dead as well. Your brain goes...

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right,...

I concluded that the best thing for me and for those around me was to want nothing, to be enthusiastic about nothing, to be as unmotivated as possible, in fact, so that I would never...

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

I suddenly felt that it was all the same to me whether the world existed or whether there had never been anything at all: I began to feel with all my being that there was...

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s license age than at voting age.

Life has always been a series of the same choices: enslavement, apathy or freedom.

Ferranti’s thoughts had been his. As before he had understood his remorse so now he understood the mental chains that had imprisoned him. The poor wretch could not move. Misery had become apathy and apathy...

You live recklessly when you do not take God’s law seriously or respond to the gospel properly. Reckless living can look like laziness and apathy. When you simply aren’t motivated and tell yourself that God...

Today, you can pick your own news. At no time has the world been this compatible with apathy.