C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Apathy
A sort of living oblivion.
Horace Greeley.
In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.
Hume.
According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason.
William Fleming.
There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.
Burke.