Fernando Pessoa Quotes

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

Acting like you don’t care is a whole lot easier when you don’t care

It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.

I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.

But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.

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.

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

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.

It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.

I used to think that cruelty required malice, but that is not true. Jeanine has no reason to act out of malice. But she is cruel because she doesn't care what she does, as long as it fascinates her. I may as well be a puzzle or a broken machine she wants to fix. She will break open my skull just to see the inner workings of my brain; I will die here, and that will be the merciful thing.

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.

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

Who knows, perhaps he doesn't care about me at all and look at the others in just the same way.

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

I'm going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel. That's going to feel great.

It's a new art form, showing people how little we care.

What you've got is 30,000 people calling you an asshole.- Stone Cold Steve Austin What I've got is 30,000 people I couldn't care less if they lived or died.

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

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.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all .

Hating someone is giving them too much, just leave them alone.

When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed