Alafair Burke Quotes

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

Was it really this easy, once you escaped, to just not care?

Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time.

I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.

Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.

I wonder if I shall ever see her again, and I realize that I scarcely care. I can feel the sheets beneath me, and the cold air on my chest. I feel fine. I feel absolutely fine. I feel nothing at all.

Numb is the new deep.

Do you believe in apathy at first sight?

I couldn't give a rat's tutu about your emotional distress

Excuse me, guess I've mistaken you for somebody else, somebody who gave a damn, somebody more like myself.

My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.

I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.

I don't know if I'll ever do it again or not, but frankly I don't really care.

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.

The ultimate crime is not to care.

Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.

I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.

That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.

Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.

Some people can very easily switch off and be guilt free, not that what I'm doing is about guilt, but they can completely disconnect and not care because it doesn't affect them. I've always really cared about what happens and felt a certain responsibility.

I can’t seem to make myself care about anything to the right or left of the present.

I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.

I think we've unplugged and become very apathetic to a lot of things that are happening. There's so much going on and we're sort of disconnected.

Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation fed by a subtle fear of the heart. We pull back, believing that what happens to others is not our concern. Our courage leaves us. Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.