David Rakoff Quotes

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day.

Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.

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

Friendship is but a name. I love no one.

For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future.

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

It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.

I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.

I had always felt that I was an observer, never a participant; that I was watching from behind a thick glass wall as people went about the business of living--and did it with such ease, with a skill that they took for granted and that I had never known.

Nobody helps anybody.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world.

My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self on the street - what do we have to say to each other? Hey there! Hi ya!That's about it. Nobody raises a hand. No one turns around to take another look.

...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 can get to them.

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.