Carelessness Quotes

“How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Overconfidence precedes carelessness.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Kingdoms of Elfin

“In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Being cautious ain't merely look after myself,
but also keep me away from others' carelessness.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Treat the whole existence as divine. Even a rock is a goddess, a river is a goddess. Even animals are nothing but divine forms. So remember that you are a goddess and that everybody else is also a god or a goddess.”
― Osho, Beloved of my heart: A Darshan diary

“In reality, there are two losses in most of our losses. The first occurred the day that we actually lost whatever it was that we lost. But if we look more closely, the real ‘first’ loss was the day that we started neglecting it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Carelessness is a disease.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made....”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Non riuscivo a perdonarlo e neanche trovarlo simpatico, ma capii che dal suo punto di vista ciò che aveva fatto era pienamente giustificato. Era stato tutto molto sbadato e pasticciato. Erano gente sbadata, Tom e Daisy: sfracellavano cose e persone e poi si ritiravano nel loro denaro o nella loro ampia sbadataggine o in ciò che comunque li teneva uniti, e lasciavano che altri mettessero a posto il pasticcio che avevano fatto.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I didn't ask why anybody would want to risk the electric two-step on the tracks because, as police, all three of us knew that there wasn't anything so stupid that somebody wouldn't try it sooner or later.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station

“Love is like a wild rose; the thorns will only make your heart bleed if you touch it without care.”
― Laura Chouette

“If we’re honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Careful minds build durable buildings; careless minds build rotten buildings!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I am no pessimist. Happy are those who can make of their suffering something universal. I don’t know if the world is sad or bad, nor do I care, because I feel bored and indifferent in the face of other people’s suffering. As
long as they don’t cry or moan — which I find irritating and embarrassing —I greet their suffering with a shrug of the shoulders, so deep is my disdain for them.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

“Some people are cynical,
yet they know how to make their intentions sound lyrical,
but in the end,
they leave you with scares that are unmistakable".”
― Mireya Rios, Painted Love

“ক্লাশভর্তি উজ্জ্বল সন্তান, ওরা জুড়ে দেবে ফুলস্কেফ সমস্ত কাগজ!
আমি বাজে ছেলে, আমি লাষ্ট বেঞ্চি, আমি পারবো না!”
― Abul Hasan, আবুল হাসানের শ্রেষ্ঠ কবিতা

“If you don’t have any results to show for all your passing time, then you must have been trivializing time and you must have been living your life carelessly.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“Don’t live your life not to know what to do with your time. If you don’t have any results to show for all your passing time, then you must have been trivializing time and you must have been living your life carelessly.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“And as we mean to be very powerful writers, as well as every thing else that is desirable, power is never seen to so much advantage as when it goes about a thing carelessly; you like to see a light horseman, who seems as if he could abolish you with a passing cut, and not a great heavy fellow, who looks as if he should tumble down in case of missing you, or a little red staring busy body, who would be obliged to wield his sword two-handed, and kill himself first with exertion.”
― Leigh Hunt

“But it was the chance carelessness of it which particularly appealed to Dirk because words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“it's difficult to let go of the person you care about the most. But now I find him, it's even harder to hold the memory of a person who doesn't care about you in the way you hopped.”
― Carmen Rosales, He Loves Me

“Tunajua. Ikiwa tutatanguka, basi ni kwa sababu ya kutojali.”
― Enock Maregesi

“At the point when you open your mouth to talk, just two things can occur. Your words will either be for you or against you. There's in the middle between. In light of that, how might you be so careless and simply talk too much at anything and everything? Watch your words before you utter.”
― Aarif

“People do profoundly stupid things. When they have to pay the price, and there’s always a price, they blame God, their parents, the universe and everything under the sun except themselves.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“You had to pay attention to everything, at the same time, affirm your charm and carelessness only.”
― Mordawska Beata

“Don’t confuse selfishness and stupidity with malice. People seldom consider the consequences of their impulsive actions.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Who cared about manners when their whole life was falling apart?”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“Bitter+Empathy:
The emotional realization that someone never meant to hurt you, that they were just careless assholes wandering through life looking down at their phone while crossing roads (like fucking idiots). And you were just something inconsequential to them, like a single sentence, while the pain they inflicted upon you was a whole chapter.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“La pire des attitudes est l'indifférence, dire « je n'y peux rien, je me débrouille ». En vous comportant ainsi, vous perdez l'une des composantes essentielles qui fait l'humain. Une des composantes indispensables : la faculté d'indignation qui en est la conséquence.”
― Stéphane Hessel, Indignez-vous !