- complete withdrawal from person or people. There is in apathy no real attempt to
contact one’s self and no attempt to contact others. Here we have a null point of
dissonance which is on the threshold of death. (SOS, p. 57)
- a very docile and obedient, if sick, state of not-beingness. (HFP, p. 56)
- no effort, all counter-effort. (AP&A, p. 33)
- apathy actually is a motionless enturbulence. It’s an enturbulence
cancelling itself out to the degree that it appears to be motionless. (5206CM25A)
- apathy, near death, imitates death. If a person is almost all wrong, he
approximates death. He says, “What’s the use? All is lost.” (NOTL, p. 20)
