--- title: "11 Insouciance Quotes by 11 authors" description: "Browse 11 Insouciance quotes by 11 authors. Discover the best Insouciance sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f46/ogden-nash-1286_insouciance_i-would-live-all-my-life-in-nonchalance_1111697.png" --- > [I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ogden-nash/i-would-live-all-my-life-in-nonchalance-and-insouciance-were-it-not/) [Ogden Nash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ogden-nash/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f46/ogden-nash-1286_insouciance_i-would-live-all-my-life-in-nonchalance_1111697.png) > [“on ne peut combattre l'extrême préoccupation que par l'extrême insouciance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexandre-dumas/on-ne-peut-combattre-l-extr-me-pr-occupation-que-par-l-extr-me/) [Alexandre Dumas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexandre-dumas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7c/alexandre-dumas-436_insouciance_on-ne-peut-combattre-l-extr-me-pr-occupa_2546606.jpg) > [“I always thought there was something French about her, ever since the word 'insouciance' flitted across the surface of my mind the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-pine/i-always-thought-there-was-something-french-about-her-ever-since-the/) [Jessica Pine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-pine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77e/jessica-pine-101454_first-time_i-always-thought-there-was-something-fre_3090272.jpg) > [To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/to-speak-in-literature-with-the-perfect-rectitude-and-insouciance-of/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c2/walt-whitman-265_animal_to-speak-in-literature-with-the-perfect_833413.png) > [India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jawaharlal-nehru/india-has-known-the-innocence-and-insouciance-of-childhood-the/) [Jawaharlal Nehru](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jawaharlal-nehru/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c96/jawaharlal-nehru-2391_abandon_india-has-known-the-innocence-and-insouc_2185170.jpg) > [ I would like \[the working man\] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/i-would-like-the-working-man-to-give-me-back-books-and-newspapers-and/) [D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/668/d-h-lawrence-426_book_i-would-like-the-working-man-to-give-me_1356391.jpg) > [I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baudelaire/i-have-to-confess-that-i-had-gambled-on-my-soul-and-lost-it-with/) [Charles Baudelaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baudelaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbf/charles-baudelaire-473_cards_i-have-to-confess-that-i-had-gambled-on_2547007.jpg) > [They say the older you get, the less you care about what people think. The physical reason for elderly insouciance may be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miranda-devine/they-say-the-older-you-get-the-less-you-care-about-what-people-think/) [Miranda Devine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miranda-devine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b54/miranda-devine-5684_insouciance_they-say-the-older-you-get-the-less-you_2575563.jpg) > [A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-a-gill/a-country-scratching-a-lazy-irritation-at-sagging-doorjambs-and-late/) [A. A. Gill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-a-gill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92a/a-a-gill-3415_aspiration_a-country-scratching-a-lazy-irritation-a_1395513.jpg) > [Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-l-pez/over-the-years-one-comes-to-measure-a-place-too-not-just-for-the/) [Barry Lopez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-l-pez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a7/barry-l-pez-8215_beauty_over-the-years-one-comes-to-measure-a-pl_1179684.png) > [The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but try as I may I can not escape…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-assange/the-whole-universe-or-the-structure-that-perceives-it-is-a-worthy/) [Julian Assange](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-assange/) 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