These not caring quotes will inspire you.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging not caring quotes, not caring sayings, and not caring proverbs.
Best Not Caring Quotes
- “There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do.” ~ Amy Poehler
- “Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.” ~ Richard Bach
- “One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.” ~ Douglas Coupland
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“If you don’t care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success.” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “The funny thing is, I’m so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn’t.” ~ Rob Zombie
- “There’s a very fine line between not listening and not caring. I like to think I walk that line every day of my life.” ~ Burnie Burns , Not caring quotes life
- “You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.” ~ John Lennon
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“I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.” ~ Mitch Hedberg
- “Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring.” ~ Robert Breault
- “I didn’t care about anything except her and the way touching her drove me wild, even as her calm and steady presence soothed the storms that raged within me.” ~ Richelle Mead
- “At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.” ~ Ann Landers
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“You either like me or you don’t. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don’t have that kinda time to convince somebody else.” ~ Daniel Franzese
- “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
- “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
- “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
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“The right mixture of caring and not caring – I suppose that’s what love is.” ~ James Hilton
- “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
- “Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares?… He’s a mile away and you’ve got his shoes!” ~ Billy Connolly
- “I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.” ~ Ayn Rand
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“I don’t paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn’t bother about things like that.” ~ Alice Neel
- “The horse is a great equalizer, he doesn’t care how good looking you are, or how rich you are or how powerful you are– he takes you for how you make him feel.” ~ Buck Brannaman
- “Life’s one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person’s real protection.” ~ Francine Pascal
- “Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.” ~ John James Audubon
- “I used to care about how I looked. Now I don’t care as much. Maybe it’s because I’m so handsome.” ~ James Franco
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“Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” ~ Dr. Seuss
- “Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying the same, we realize that relaxing and letting go is a wiser way to live. Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.” ~ Jack Kornfield
- “If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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“I don’t try to be candy-coated. I don’t try to walk on eggshells. I am what I am. Love me or hate me.” ~ Pink
- “But on the way home tonight, you wish you’d picked him up, held him a bit. Just held him, very close to your heart, his cheek by the hollow of your shoulder, full of sleep. As it were you who could, somehow, save him. For the moment not caring who you’re supposed to be registered as. For the moment, anyway, no longer who the Caesars say you are.” ~ Thomas Pynchon
- “I don’t care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.” ~ Jonathan Davis
- “What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn’t seem to matter what sport it was-in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it.” ~ Lance Armstrong
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“Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings, and emotions” ~ Will Smith
- “I’ve learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It’s very liberating.” ~ Gwyneth Paltrow
- “I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
- “You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.” ~ Raymond Chandler
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“Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner.” ~ Laozi
- “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
- “I’m the one not caring. I’m the one pretending the Earth isn’t shattering all around me because I don’t want it to be. I don’t want to know there was an earthquake in Missouri. I don’t want to know the Midwest can die, also, that what’s going on isn’t just tides and tsunamis. I don’t want to have any more to be afraid of. I didn’t start this diary for it to be a record of death.” ~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
- “I’ve done movies in the past that have so many characters and I find it’s very hard to follow all these stories. You end up not caring about any of the people and I thought that would be the case in this film, and you had these big speeches for each character, you know, it’s like “God that’s how you’ll have to cut that down in order to paste it all”, to edit the movie and my representatives could say “no, you really you ought to check it out.” ~ Jeff Bridges
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“You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
- “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
- “Don’t aim at success — the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run — in the long run, I say — success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.” ~ Viktor E. Frankl
- “Progress! Progress through everybody dying and their kids eventually not caring who their parents hated!” ~ Ryan North
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“My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I’m talking about or not.” ~ John Hodgman
- “It is not only a matter of not caring who knows – it is also a matter of knowing who cares.” ~ Idries Shah
- “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
- “Dylan Jerome,” the lawyer admits, “wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.” ~ Jodi Picoult
- “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
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“I’m starting to get used to this feeling of not caring about anything.” ~ J.A. Redmerski
- “I’m the one who got hit by that car, not you,’ I tell him. ‘Don’t act like you’re the victim here. You made choices I didn’t ask you to make. I’m not sure anyone asked you to make them.’ I’m screaming the words, not caring that the entire world can probably hear me. ‘You think I like limping everywhere I go? I don’t. I’m the victim! Be honest with me! You didn’t care about me enough to trust me. I gave you my heart, but it wasn’t enough.” ~ Simone Elkeles
- “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
- “I can’t tell if she’s actually real, or if she’s stopped caring if she’s real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?” ~ Jennifer Egan
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“I don’t think avoiding conflict is not caring. ~Shin” ~ Ai Yazawa
- “I always thought love made you stupid. Made you weak. A bad Shadowhunter. ‘To love is to destroy.’I believed that[…]I used to think being a good warrior meant not caring,[…] And then I met you. You were a mundane. Weak. Not a fighter. Never trained[…] Love didn’t make you weak, it made you stronger than anyone I’d ever met. And I realized I was the one who was weak.” ~ Cassandra Clare
- “So much as I enjoy big novels of epic sweep, I often find, say, if they follow several generations, by the third generation, I’m not caring about the people anymore.” ~ Emma Donoghue , Not caring quotes anymore
- “I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.” ~ Douglas Coupland
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“Do not make the mistake of believing that he does not love you because he plays at not caring.” ~ Cassandra Clare
- “It was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. I wanted to be the last one she loved. And I knew I wasn’t. I knew it, and I hated her for it. I hated her for not caring about me. I hated her for leaving that night, and I hated myself, too, not only because I let her go but because if I had been enough for her, she wouldn’t have even wanted to leave. She would have just lain with me and talked and cried, and I would have listened and kissed at her tears as they pooled in her eyes.” ~ John Green
- “One does not really feel much grief at other people’s sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not caring more; but one cannot and it is better, for if one grieved too deeply at other people’s tears, life would be unendurable; and every man has sufficient sorrows of his own without taking to heart his neighbor’s.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
- “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
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“Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That’s freedom.” ~ Demi Moore
- “I don’t know what to do,” Will said. “Mortmain has taken Tessa, and I believe now I know where she might be. There is a part of me that wants nothing more than to go after her. But I cannot leave Jem. I swore an oath. And what if he wakes in the night and finds I am not here?” He looked as lost as a child. “He will think I left him willingly, not caring that he was dying. He will not know. And yet if he could speak, would he not tell me to go after Tessa? Is that not what he would want?” Will dropped his face into his hands. “I cannot say, and it is tearing me in half.” ~ Cassandra Clare
- “Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may be lots of reasons. But often the answer is you don’t care what happens. So what makes the difference between caring and not caring? The author’s cruelty. And the reader’s sympathy…it takes a mean author to write a good story.” ~ Gail Carson Levine
- “I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too much. But there are these feelings inside me which need badly to escape, I guess. And this makes me feel relieved because one of my big concerns these past few years is that I’ve been losing my ability to feel things with the same intensity- the way I felt when I was younger. It’s scary- to feel your emotions floating away and just not caring. I guess what’s really scary is not caring about the loss.” ~ Douglas Coupland
