23 quotes found
“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...”
“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 crue...”
“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 tru...”
“The true creator-self is a light-at-heart and care-free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play.”
“Wielding your words cavalierly can inadvertently lop off someones ego.”
“Hes completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly.”
“Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Loving is like any other art-craft where the masters have carefully practiced and where the novices have languished in their carelessness.”
“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.”
“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...”
“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.”
“For want of a nail the shoe was lost for want of a shoe the horse was lost and for want of a horse the rider was lost being overtaken and slain by the enemy all for want of care about a horsesh...”
“Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.”
“The wife of a careless man is almost a widow.”
“Wielding your words cavalierly can inadvertently lop off someone’s ego.”
“He’s completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly.”