Not Caring Quotes - Page 4

• Not caring for their lives' is it? Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time.

  Marcel Proust

  Caring, World, Care

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.90, Jester House Publishing

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• I’m starting to get used to this feeling of not caring about anything.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Caring, Feelings, Used

  J. A. Redmerski, J. Lynn, Jay Crownover (2013). “The Edge of Never, Wait For You, Rule: Scorching Summer Reads 3 Books in 1”, p.42, HarperCollins UK

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• I don’t know what to do,” Will said. “Mortmain has taken Tessa, and I believe now I know where she might be. There is a part of me that wants nothing more than to go after her. But I cannot leave Jem. I swore an oath. And what if he wakes in the night and finds I am not here?” He looked as lost as a child. “He will think I left him willingly, not caring that he was dying. He will not know. And yet if he could speak, would he not tell me to go after Tessa? Is that not what he would want?” Will dropped his face into his hands. “I cannot say, and it is tearing me in half.

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Believe, Taken

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not make the mistake of believing that he does not love you because he plays at not caring.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mistake, Believe, Love You

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a big difference between "not caring" or being "nihilistic" about a topic and simply not being enrolled by the drama presented by other people. Just because my characters choose not to react in standard, socially-appropriate ways - that does not mean they don't care. They just reject ordinary dramas.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Drama, Character, Mean

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• So much as I enjoy big novels of epic sweep, I often find, say, if they follow several generations, by the third generation, I'm not caring about the people anymore.

  Emma Donoghue

  Caring, Epic, People

  "Emma Donoghue's New Novel Follows "The Wonder" Of Starvation". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 17, 2016.

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• By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed with them because, again, I don't care too much what other people think.

  Albert Ellis

  Caring, Thinking, Ideas

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• I'm sure Democrats are hoping that Donald Trump will make a move soon to rescind and repeal Obama's orders. And then Barack Obama will call the media and he'll go on TV and he'll immediately accuse Trump of poisoning the planet, not caring about poisoning the water and all this other stuff. I know how this stuff works, and more of you each and every day who listen here religiously know as well as I what Obama is setting up here. It is to portray Trump as some selfish heathen who only cares about his own profit.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Selfish, Moving, Caring

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Once your product is working, switch from not caring about this to caring about this a little bit.

  Sam Altman

  Caring, Littles, Little Bit

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• I had got to the dawn of the beautiful not caring, but fully aware, stage, which degenerates so imperceptibly into the doing something unpermissible stage.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Beautiful, Caring, Dawn

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• Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure spending because it is easier than measuring actual metrics of accomplishment.

  Grover Norquist

  Caring, Accomplishment, Doe

  "Grover Norquist vs. the Pentagon". Interview with Michael D. Ostrolenk, www.theamericanconservative.com. October 24, 2012.

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• Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation fed by a subtle fear of the heart. We pull back, believing that what happens to others is not our concern. Our courage leaves us. Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

  Jack Kornfield

  Believe, Heart, Caring

  Jack Kornfield (2010). “The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace”, p.137, Random House

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• The war in Afghanistan, the first war of the twenty-first century, shows the United States doing what it wants to do, not caring about who it antagonizes, not caring about the effects on neighboring regions.

  Tariq Ali

  War, Caring, Twenties

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. January 2002.

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• What's cool about renting is that you don't care about your house getting destroyed. So I think that is the number-one thing. Just going "Sure, you can jump off the roof. I think that's safe! Let's just paint on the walls! I bet the beer bottle will break before it shatters the window!" Not caring about the environment is a plus. And a ton of booze. And underage kids. That just ups the excitement value of the party, like, "Oh my God, we could all go to prison."

  Adam DeVine

  Wall, Party, Kids

  "Adam Devine on How to Throw a House Party". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. October 24, 2013.

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• There is nothing about myself that I wouldn't reveal or write about. I don't care how horrendous or ridiculous I may appear in person or in print. There is great freedom in not caring what other people think.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Caring, Thinking

  Interview, www.goodreads.com. April, 2008.

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• I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wall, Dark, Caring

  Ernest Hemingway (1997). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my face. Not caring if I saw downtown. Not even thinking about it. Because I was standing in the tunnel. And I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Caring, Thinking, Tunnels

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

  Jodi Picoult

  Caring, Lawyer, Enough

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Bullying, Kids

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.987, Delphi Classics

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  Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions

  Will Smith

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was-in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Athlete, Caring

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• Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.

  Laozi

  People, Tao Te Ching, Care

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• I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

  Jonathan Davis

  Bullying, Kids, Thinking

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• If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Angel, Differences, Mind Your Own Business

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• Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying the same, we realize that relaxing and letting go is a wiser way to live. Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Wise, Mean

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