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

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

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

If we’re honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it did not care a whit about the hopes and reams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.

~ Khaled Hosseini

I wept for my family, all if us, my beautiful, idyllic, lost family. I wept for our excesses, our delusions and inconsistencies; not that we had cared too much or too little, although both were true, but that we had let such extraordinary care be subverted into extraordinary carelessness. We'd been careless with the best of our many resources: each other. It was as though we had taken for granted the fact that there would be more where we had come from too; another chance, another summer, another Brooke, Bridget or Bill.

~ Brooke Hayward

Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight.

~ Criss Jami

The true creator-self is a light-at-heart and care-free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Wielding your words cavalierly can inadvertently lop off someone’s ego.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the privilege you have to possess it in the first place.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

He’s completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.

~ Aesop

I'm so careless that now i don't even care if i cared for you.

~ Vatsal

If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Maybe it’s a whole lot less about focusing on the fact that we’re all victims and a whole lot more about the changing the fact that we’re all careless, as that is what victimized all of us in the first place.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Although it pains me to admit it, I am quite familiar with the holes in life. And this familiarity is due to the fact that I spend far more time in these holes than I spend on the paths that brought me to them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.

~ Rosamund Lupton

Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enormously gifted poet whose death came carelessly, by mistake, and too soon.

~ Al Álvarez

Carelessness was once something to be owned. They wore it around their necks as they joined the springtime breeze while ducking in and out of the forest believing their fairy tale.

~ A. Lynn

Loving is like any other art-craft where the masters have carefully practiced and where the novices have languished in their carelessness.

~ Bryant Mcgill

This book is a personal memoir; but it is also a larger story-about carelessness and guilt, and the wreckage they can make of lives.

~ Brooke Hayward

When I picked up the bird and felt its light weight in my hands, I realized that carelessness was a form of cruelty. See, I'd always told myself that because I meant no harm, anything that happened wasn't my fault. At that moment, though, I knew I was wrong. If I hadn't given the female my gun, the bird wouldn't have been shot. I was responsible even though I didn't pull the trigger.

~ J.r. Ward

There are rules which are meant to break. There are roads not to be followed.There are memories meant to leave.There are so many things we should not care about.

~ Himanshu Bisht