Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

It's not actually OK to just be apathetic about anything.

Lack of desire is the greatest riches.

The mind lives through more, and the more cannot be fulfilled; that is impossible. IT ENDS IN TEARS. Every desire ends in frustration, because every expectation is the beginning of frustration. Why does every desire end in frustration? There are only two alternatives: either you achieve your object of desire or you don't achieve it, but in both cases it will end in tears. If you achieve it you will see the utter futility of it all.

Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.

You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.

I don't care if I ever work in TV again.

I knew my ways were unfulfilling. I chased power, pleasure, possessions, something satisfying. I knew I kept getting let down. I knew it was insanity, and I was never going to find fulfillment, but I didn't know what else to look for.

The devastating scale and frequency of my disappointment was proof of how much I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high hopes I still had for it.

In all honesty, I'm not interested in records.

Apathy in youth culture is pretty stark.

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.

All desiring is desiring for the futile. It leads only into frustration.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

I just don't see anybody that's particularly interested in fixing that.

You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

To be apathetic is literally to be without passion.

when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.