Careless Quotes
294 quotes by 240 authors
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The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being…
— Alan Watts
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I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. We all get cranky, or impatient, or worried, or…
— Jean Ferris
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I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself, mindless of others,…
— Laurie R. King
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful...
— Tom Robbins
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There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and…
— Kate DiCamillo
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Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.…
— Paul Verlaine
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Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on…
— Virginia Woolf
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She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and…
— Jane Austen
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Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed.
— Lauren Kate
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You have to get away from them. You have to get as far away as you can otherwise they'll kill you with their lives. They…
— Henry Rollins
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It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards;…
— Tom Robbins
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She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing,…
— Jane Austen
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There are hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided…
— Kate DiCamillo
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Should Disappointment, parent of Despair, Strive for her son to seize my careless heart; When, like a cloud, he sits upon the air, Preparing on…
— John Keats
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[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a…
— Joseph Campbell
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You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter. You are the best thing that's ever been mine.
— Taylor Swift
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To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused…
— Kate Morton
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You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who Wrote These Careless Quotes
240 authors contributed a total of 294 Careless Quotes, led by these top contributors: