There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
—Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
—Elie Wiesel
To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
—Dorothy Thompson
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence and back into bondage.
—Fraser Tyler
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
—William Safire