Quotes About Not Caring

#1. Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That's freedom.

Demi Moore

#2. DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth as she walked by. Her crispy hair twinkled in the summer sun as her big proud stomach moved her on down the block while I watched, not caring whether or not she was a poem.

Audre Lorde

#3. It's hard to care about people when you're always afraid you might lose them. But I think not caring is worse.

Amber Argyle

#4. The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is.

James Hilton

#5. When people call it that I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you just get like really sad, you get quiet and melancholy and just like sit quietly by the window sighing or just lying around. A state of not caring about anything. A kind of blue kind of peaceful state.

David Foster Wallace

#6. You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss.

Douglas Coupland

#7. There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

Amy Poehler

#8. 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.

Albert Ellis

#9. Baine was controlling her passion, curbing it from a destructive wild-natured thing, to something beautiful and wonderful. For the countless time since his arrival, Ivy found herself not caring about anything else. All she wanted was for the mouth dance to continue. Forever.

Shirley Bourget

#10. Being famous is like putting yourself on a pedestal for the entire world to see, and not caring about what judgements are made of you.

Chris Colfer

#11. But there was a leap to be made from not caring about someone to wanting to eat them.

Matt Haig

#12. It's part of the business of really not caring about topping myself because I really don't care what's going to happen. I think just surviving is a major thing. I'd like to write something that my peers, my colleagues, my fellow writers would find a source of respect.

Rod Serling

#13. But witchy magic doesn't listen to please and pretty please, and anyway, I didn't really care. I only pretended to care because not caring makes me a monster.

Franny Billingsley

#14. If you can remain with absolutely nothing to do for even a short period of time - that's a taste of freedom. Being busy is ok, not being busy is also ok. Not caring whether you're busy or not busy is really ok.

Art Hochberg

#15. Money gives you the luxury of not caring about it. You can affect to find it crass and vulgar, but see how crass and vulgar it is when there's none of it in your pocket.

Irvine Welsh

#16. As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they're not caring about you, they're caring about the character.

Freddie Highmore

#17. God has broken me in every way possible. I spent a year not caring, a year trying to figure out what I'd done to deserve it. and a year trying to make it right.

Cassandra Giovanni

#18. One of life's ironies is that the more honest and vulnerable you are, the more others try to discredit you as a fraud and a fake. Shut them up by not caring.

Dan Pearce

#19. The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.

James Anthony Froude

#20. Not teaching your kids about money is like not caring whether they eat. If they enter the world without financial knowledge, they will have a much harder go of it.

Donald Trump

#21. What mattered was not caring. And the best way not to care was to surround yourself with noise and people.

Kristin Hannah

#22. A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop curiosity, not caring whether the object of our inquisitiviness is bitter or sweet.

Pema Chodron

#23. I learned that to harden your heart was not the same as not caring.

Helen Macdonald

#24. I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there's something great about loving what you love and not caring if it's unpopular.

Kristen Bell

#25. What has worked for America is not caring about how the rich are doing, or the politics of envy. What's worked for America is growth. Growth is the reason why I had a very nice middle class upbringing with parents who never went to college.

Anthony Scaramucci

#26. For a wondrous golden second, they basked in the afterglow, not caring that it was four in the afternoon and they were naked in front of the windows. "I missed you," Ellie whispered right against his ear. "Don't ever think that I wasn't missing you like crazy all that time.

Lauren Gilley

#27. But nothing violates the rules of shutting up and not caring so much as flirting - except possibly for that enchantingly horrible moment when you act upon the flirting, that moment where you seal your heartbreak with a kiss.

John Green

#28. Rely not upon conscience,' Feren said, hearing the bitterness in her own voice and not caring. 'It ever kneels to necessity.

Steven Erikson

#29. caring about lives is not caring about your own life. it's all about giving your last breath for others to live. The caring man is like the last crab out of a bucket. letting others step on your back to get out, and letting you not step on others back and that is love.

Christian

#30. The long-term answer to a kid not caring about your concerns is to care more about his.

Ross W. Greene

#31. Cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it's a short way from not knowing who's at the other end of your food chain to not caring - to the carelessness of both producers and consumers.

Michael Pollan

#32. But only people you care about can hurt you. That doesn't mean I love her. Hate is not the opposite of love; not caring is. And as long as I hate her, I still care about her, and she has the power to hurt me. To make me hate myself.

Mik Everett

#33. I learned to cook in self-defense. My wife doesn't know what a kitchen is. In the first month of our marriage, she broiled lamb chops 26 nights in a row. Then I took over. I used to mind her not caring about food, but no more - as long as I can eat what I want.

Alan King

#34. I had horrible moment at the end of a very successful day, where I realized I just felt nothing about it and I didn't care. And I had that fear that I would, because I was successful at it, that I would be there 20, 30 years down the road, doing this job and just not caring about what I did.

Dan Povenmire

#35. I believe in mess, tears, pain, self-abasement, loss of self-respect, nakedness. Not caring doesn't seem much different from not loving.

Tom Stoppard

#36. I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.

Mitch Hedberg

#37. 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

#38. Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.

Francine Pascal

#39. Want to know the best shit about being a psychopath?" "Fuck you." "Not caring that other people think you're a psychopath.

C.D. Reiss

#40. The part you don't expect when you start out is all the people who come into your life wanting a piece of you, not caring about your wellbeing. The insane schedule is very difficult. Touring looks very glamourous but it's hard and gruelling - the travelling, the meet-and-greets - it was too crazy.

Cheryl James

#41. There are three things in life ... not worrying what they are, not caring what others may think they are, and enjoying the wonder of what they might be.

Tom Althouse

#42. 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

#43. It's incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It's about understanding myself. Sometimes I'll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It's become part of my routine.

Shakira

#44. I don't think avoiding conflict is not caring.

~Shin

Ai Yazawa

#45. It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

Idries Shah

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

Jodi Picoult

#47. Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded firmly in the truth of what is.

Sharon Salzberg

#48. Oh, many and many a time," he whispered. "When I saw you. When I took ye, not caring did ye want me or no, did ye have somewhere else to be, someone else to love.

Diana Gabaldon

#49. The big-name stars ... are always going to be playing what they've played before if they want to remain so-called A-list stars. That's why someone like Johnny Depp is doing more interesting roles not caring about the size of the movie.

Ben Stiller

#50. There's a greatness in not caring what people think

Melissa McCarthy

#51. I ached for him, my stomach twisting painfully. He looked so desolate standing there alone facing a mad queen and several thousand angry fey. His voice was flat and resigned, as if he'd been pushed into a corner and had given up, not caring what happened next.

Julie Kagawa

#52. I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#53. When you fight, you put yourself out there, not caring who you hurt or if you'll get hurt.

Angie Thomas

#54. It's not fair. It's not fair, she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not make it untrue.

Kristin Cashore

#55. Bush and his commanders in the war on terrorism are willing to waste non-terrorists to kill terrorists. Right or wrong, that is not caring about the dignity of every life.

David Corn

#56. The result of my not caring so much about what I say allows me to care more about how I say it. P. 4

Mindy Kaling

#57. I picked up my camera and held it at arm's length and took a picture of myself not caring. I called it: Glory Doesn't Care.

A.S. King

#58. Progress! Progress through everybody dying and their kids eventually not caring who their parents hated!

Ryan North

#59. People can get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there's the freedom of not caring what people think.

Candice Bergen

#60. You just have to live your life with confidence, not caring what they think. Just shake off the drama because you know you're better than they think you are!

Karen Gibbs

#61. Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.

Gustave Flaubert

#62. Not caring how you look is but a brief step away from not caring what you do or how you treat people. And surely, if you treat yourself with contempt, you're going to have little thought, care or compassion for anyone else.

Lynda Lee-Potter

#63. The media is something that affects a lot of people, so you're constantly trying to strike a balance between respecting something and not caring about it.

Madonna Ciccone

#64. A-ha, but don't you see, not caring about the money, only caring about winning, that's a luxury. You come from money, so you have the luxury of only caring about your accomplishments.

L. H. Cosway

#65. 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

#66. Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is knowing exactly who one is - and still not caring.

Tom Robbins

#67. 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

#68. Confusion is like curiosity, it reminds us that we're alive. To not feel confused means we no longer care. Not caring is death.

Chelsea Sedoti

#69. When people say 'Lysistrata' has always been seen as an anti-war play, what's interesting is to not make it an anti-war play, because I actually think there are important times to go to war in this world. That's just the reality. But what's interesting is the not caring.

Douglas Carter Beane

#70. I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

John Buchan

#71. She influenced by the positivism of her race, was gazing into the future. While he was content with the present moment, not caring to know what would be the end of their love

Vicente Blasco Ibanez

#72. My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.

John Hodgman

#73. The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

Rod Serling

#74. Theres a very fine line between not listening and not caring. I like to think I walk that line everyday of my life.

Burnie Burns

#75. And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit.

P.L. Travers

#76. I'm going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel.

Andre Agassi

#77. The trick is not caring what EVERYBODY thinks of you and just caring about what the RIGHT people think of you. - Brian Michael Bendis

Austin Kleon

#78. We must admit that God owes us nothing. Before we charge God with not caring, we must thank Him for those times when His care is very evident. We are ever surrounded by undeserved blessings. Even in His silence, He blesses us.[8]

David Jeremiah

#79. Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring.

Robert Breault

#80. To kind of go through life not caring is a spectacular attribute. It's one I wish I had.

Neil Cross

#81. There's a difference between not caring about what others think, and not caring about yourself. Your problem is you don't even care about you. And if you don't care about yourself, how the hell is anyone else supposed to?

Lindy Zart

#82. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

Viktor E. Frankl

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

Sam Altman

#84. The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.

Moss Hart

#85. It's a big shift. I don't know quite how to explain it. Between wanting and not wanting, caring and not caring. Of course it's a lot more than that too. Shock and aura. Things are stronger and brighter and I feel on the edge of something inexpressible.

Donna Tartt

#86. It's really easy to insist that people read the manual. It's really easy to blame the user/student/prospect/customer for not trying hard, for being too stupid to get it, or for not caring enough to pay attention.

Seth Godin

#87. 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

#88. And then I was simply running, flying along the hallways of the palace on glass-slippered feet, not knowing, not caring where I was going. The journey, not the destination, was all that mattered. The sense of freedom, never mind that it was false, that always comes with motion.

Cameron Dokey

#89. Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

Boyd Rice

#90. There wasn't much that scared her. She was the strongest person I'd ever known. And I'm not talking about the kind of strength that's measured by the number of reps someone can perform. I'm talking about being fearless. About standing up for yourself. About not caring what people think.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#91. You ever get gut feelings? Like you see something and you just know?" Ty asked, feeling stupid but not caring. He felt Zane squeeze his hand. "First time I saw you, after I got over hating you, I knew ... I knew we'd die together. I could just feel it deep down. Never felt that before.

Abigail Roux

#92. Sometimes silence is not an indicator of not caring, but a way to give time and space to the one who's hurting. Only judge when time passes ad the void widens such that the chasm cannot be bridged.

Irene Fantopoulos

#93. There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.

Robert Breault

#94. He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.

John Lancaster Spalding

#95. I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going deep down into life and not caring a damn ...

P.G. Wodehouse

#96. Don't mistake my distance for my not caring. It's actually the complete opposite.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#97. 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

#98. Pretending to not want something can work. Really not caring if you get it takes a lifetime of practice

Amy Poehler

#99. One of the things I've never been accused of is not caring about people.

Joe Biden

#100. Because I have to admit: there's something really badass about truly, honestly not caring what people think about you.

Becky Albertalli