Apathy

I am so dispirited today that all I can manage are quotes about apathy.

I hope you like my selection.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. 

-- Arnold J. Toynbee

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

-- Horace Greeley

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

-- Arthur Gordon

It's enthusiasm, not apathy, that makes the world go 'round.

-- Tony Alessandra, Charisma

I don’t know, I don’t care, and it doesn’t make any difference!

-- Jack Kerouac