Disinterest Quotes

“Ronan didn't sound very interested, but that was part of the Ronan Lynch brand. It was impossible to tell how deep his disinterest truly was.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Sorrow on another's face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“We made love like green is blue. That’s because we were only half into it, though for the record I was the blue and she was the disinterested yellow.
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― Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

“Like the pleasure of friendship, the pleasure in beauty is curious: it aims to understand its object, and to value what it finds.”
― Roger Scruton, Beauty

“My father learned his disinterest under the guise of masculinity. Boys don’t cry. There are whole disciplines, institutions, rubrics in our culture which serve as categories of denial.
Science is such a category. The torture and death that Heinrich Himmler found disturbing to witness became acceptable to him when it fell under this rubric. He liked to watch the scientific experiments in the concentration camps”
― Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

“The only way I could care less about what you're talking about is if you keep talking.”
― Brian Clevinger, 8-Bit Theater

“Though he felt a little guilt over disappearing, it wasn't even guilt, just sadness over not even wanting to call her.”
― Catherine Lacey, The Answers

“People and things need not be interesting to us for them to be beneficial to us.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“cultural cringe which prevents other people from challenging them. the Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci used the term ‘cultural hegemony’ to describe the way in which ideas and concepts which benefit a dominant class are universalised. they become norms, adopted whole and unexamined, which shape our thinking”
― George Monbiot, Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life

“My interest in music was non-existent. I never put on a record or picked up a guitar or sat at the keyboard and didn't care if I ever did again.”
― Mark Lanegan, Devil in a Coma

“In the present-day American scene 5 per cent participation is a tremendous demonstration of democracy. This fact is also a tragic commentary on the unbelievable degree of apathy and disinterest on the part of American people. Unless the American people are aroused to a higher degree of participation, democracy will die at its roots — the withering disease of apathy in the roots of democracy will eventually cause its death.”
― Saul D. Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals