Apathy Quote by Erik Pevernagie

“Some people look as if they have lost their eagerness and passion. Their aspiration seems to be exhausted and fresh inspiration has abandoned their…

— Erik Pevernagie

“The loss of an eager and unrestrained longing for someone or the lack of an unyielding desire of momentous incidents in life may blur…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fear is an orphaned part of us seeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to return to…

— Jacob Nordby

“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house, the solitude,…

— Seneca

“Apathy is passionless living. It is sitting in front of the television night after night and living your life from one moment of entertainment…

— John Piper

Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that…

— Martin Seligman

“When eagerness and passion vanish, desire is deserting a weary mind. The power of craving is reaching, then, a twilight zone: The twilight of…

— Erik Pevernagie

“How intense can be the longing to escape from the emptiness and dullness of human verbosity, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate,…

— Boris Pasternak

Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works to…

— William James

“The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.”

— Patrick O'Brian

“But emotion, for most people, too often is like some sort of slumbering giant, lulled to sleep by preoccupation with the dead facts of…

— Dwight V. Swain

“Let us not still our anger against indifference and inattention and let us not glitziness, superciliousness and mumbo jumbo slither into our thinking and…

— Erik Pevernagie