Quotes about care
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“Be careful, okay, when you go there. Talia was really scared of this Malvolia chick. She could be dangerous.”
“What’s she going to have—an assault weapon?”
“Worse,” I say. “She’s got magical powers.”

Alex Flinn (1966) American children's writer

Source: A Kiss in Time

“Life, unfortunately, doesnʹt seem to care what we want. Act now while you can actually stop it from being a disaster.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Life

“You will not believe me, but I am proud of your strength. Sometimes… sometimes the only way I can care for my children is to keep my distance.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Children, Way

“there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.”

Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

Source: The Fry Chronicles

Love, World, Beauty, Understanding

“And you stupid, stupid woman, stupid for caring, stupid for thinking that he cared.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Stupidity, Thinking

“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Heart

“It'll be hard, but life moves fast-we'll see each other again. I know that. I can feel that. Just like I can feel how much you care for me and how much I love you”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Love, Life, Feeling

“If you have any care for Sin at all,
don't leave him in darkness. It's not fair to show someone the sun and then to banish him from it. Even the
devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone - Acheron (Devil May Cry)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Hell, Sun, Cry

“Why, what's the matter wi' the poor child?" she demanded of Jamie. "Has she had an accident o' some sort?"

"No, it's only she's married me," he said, "though if ye care to call it an accident, ye may.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

“The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself.

No, the real difficulty of living alone is that no one cares if you are upset.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“He might as well plant an oak in a flower-pot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff (Ch. XIV).
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)
Context: You talk of her mind being unsettled - how the devil could it be otherwise, in her frightful isolation? And that insipid, paltry creature attending her from duty and humanity! From pity and charity. He might as well plant an oak in a flower-pot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

Imagination, Flowers

“Tatiana, I love you. Do you hear me? I love you like I’ve never loved anyone in my whole life. Now, get up. For me, Tatia. For me, please get up and go take care of your sister. Go on. And I’ll take care of you.” His lips kissed her cheek.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

Love, Life, Kiss, Sister

“Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

Love, Anger

“If the guy likes/loves you, he won't care if you are a good kisser or not.
He should like you for what you are - not how you kiss.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Princess in Love

Love, Guy, Kiss

“That was the one thing I had going for me. Taking care of your family.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

Family

“She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy.

I do have a knack for finding great women.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Women, Way, Happiness

“The truth is that all examples of child protection and parental care, and all associated bodily organs … are examples of the working in nature of the kin-selection principle.”

Richard Dawkins book The Selfish Gene

Source: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 6. Genesmanship

Truth, Nature, Parent

“Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their loves. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that care nothing for hope or longing.”

Jon Krakauer book Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

Love, People, Hope, Thinking

“So I take Peter’s hand; I put it on my heart. I tell him, “You have to take good care of this, because it’s yours.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Heart

“When you're in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don't care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate, it's over. I think a passive attitude is helpful. It comes naturally because I'm lazy.”

Diablo Cody (1978) Screenwriter and author

People, Nature, Thinking, Help

“Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.”

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer

Learning

“Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.”

David Bohm (1917–1992) American theoretical physicist

Sense

“I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.”

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer

Life

“You may not agree, you may not care, but
if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world — and there are plenty — very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: Dog Songs

Love, Books, World, Dogs

“Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.”

Clive Barker book Mister B. Gone

Source: Mister B. Gone

Faith, Forgiveness

“To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived..”

Agatha Christie book Sad Cypress

Source: Sad Cypress

Love, Passion, Time, Joy

“I do care about real life. It's just not as interesting as what's in my books.”

Christina Dodd (1957) American writer

Source: Storm of Shadows

Life, Books

“Music… will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi

Music, Time, Help, Joy

“We had and incident. I took care of it."
"Really." Jace's voice dripped sarcasm. "Do you even know how to use that knife, Clarissa? Without poking a hole in yourself or any innocent bystanders?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Life, People

“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”

Og Mandino (1923–1996) American author

Life, Understanding, Dead

“Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.”

Michel Houellebecq (1956) writer

Source: H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life

Life, Pain, Disappointment, Reality

“Your hands on a gun butt right now, isn't it? Afraid of me?”
“Just want to make sure I can take care of you.”
“Oh, really?”
“Yeah, in case you need Glock-to-mouth-resuscitation.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

“My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

People

“So does nobody care about Ireland?"
"Nobody. Neither King Louis, nor King Billie, nor King James." He nodded thoughtfully. "The fate of Ireland will be decided by men not a single one of whom gives a damn about her. That is her tragedy.”

Edward Rutherfurd (1948) British writer

Source: The Rebels of Ireland

Men, Fate

“This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but the life she was living, with all its complexities. This was her life, built with care and attention, and it was good.”

Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Life, Dreams, Imagination

“Ian shrugged like he didn't care, though his reddened face indicated differently.
- 'Tis always the same. Either they're no' interested because they think I'm a child, or they are interested because they think I'm a child, which is even worse.”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Thinking

“Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.”

Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power

Source: The 48 Laws of Power

Life, Chance

“I've been asleep and I don't know if it's the same day or week or year, but who the hell cares anyway?”

Beatrice Sparks (1917–2012) American writer

Source: Go Ask Alice

Hell

“We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

“There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.”

Brian Jacques book Mossflower

Source: Mossflower

Life, War, Justice, Evil

“The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.”

Curtis Sittenfeld (1975) Novelist, short story writer

People, Learning

“Be careful.. you're all I've got left, to remind me who I really am.”

Garth Nix (1963) Australian fantasy writer

“And she would not hold back his limbs when his heart was gone to the woods, for it is ever the way of witches with any two things to care for the more mysterious of the two.”

Lord Dunsany book The King of Elfland's Daughter

Source: The King of Elfland's Daughter

Way, Heart

“I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

People, Intelligence

“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Source: Walden & Civil Disobedience

Life, Men, Country

“3) Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.”

Larry Niven (1938) American writer

Niven's Laws

Nature

“Hating requires caring. In which case, I couldn't possibly hate you.”

Alyson Nöel book Blue Moon

Source: Blue Moon

Hate

“True love means that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Love, Pain, Personality, Happiness

“I'm sorry about your Porsche."

"I can replace the Porsche. I can't replace you. You need to be more careful."

I was just sitting in your car!"

Babe, you're a magnet for disaster.”

Janet Evanovich book Eleven on Top

Source: Eleven on Top

Cars

“Live in the present. Take care of the relationships in front of you now. Most friendships have a natural life, and when they've lived that out, you'll know.”

Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer

Source: Roomies

Life, Friendship, Nature

“The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask.”

Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl

Source: Artemis Fowl

Question, Problem

“Someday, my love, you're going to understand just how much I care for you. You're my light, my warmth, my other half. I only feel alive when I'm with you. I love you." Caine”

Julie Garwood (1946) American writer

Source: Guardian Angel

Love, Feeling, Understanding, Light

“I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

Beauty, Feeling, Perfection

“You can't be careful on a skateboard.”

Stephen King book It

Source: It

“Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Money, People, Sex

“you must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.”

Clive Barker Days of Magic, Nights of War

Source: Days of Magic, Nights of War

People, Stupidity

“Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.”

Peace Pilgrim (1908–1981) American non-denominational spiritual teacher

Freedom

“When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.”

Owen Wister book The Virginian

Source: The Virginian

Idea

“We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it’s gone forever.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Life, Way, Light, Time

“It was hell to be so tired, and still care.”

Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA

Source: Shards of Honour

Hell

“He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

Heart

“The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”

Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general

Confidence, Failure, Problem, Help

“Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.”

Edwidge Danticat book Breath, Eyes, Memory

Writings
Source: Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994)

Love

“He pinched the name tag and ran his fingers under the letters. "Can you read this, mate? It says C-H-A-R-O-N. Say it with me: CARE-ON."
"Charon."
"Amazing! Now: Mr. Charon."
"Mr. Charon."
"Well done.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Reading

“Those men want to take Laurence from me, and put him in prison, and execute him, and I will not let them, ever, and I do not care if Laurence tells me not to squash you," he added, fiercely, to Lord Barham.”

Naomi Novik book Throne of Jade

Source: Throne of Jade

Men

“Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Animals, Personality

“I wish I was away in Ingo
Far across the briny sea
Sailing over deepest waters
Where neither care nor worry trouble me.”

Helen Dunmore book Ingo

Source: Ingo

Water, Sea

“the tigers have found me
and I do not care.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Variant: what you were
will not happen again.
the tigers have found me
and I do not care.

“Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.”

Doris Lessing book The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

People, Truth, Democracy, Freedom

“What if destiny doesn't care?”

Scott Westerfeld book Goliath

Source: Goliath

“There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Love

“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

“I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.”

Frank McCourt book Angela's Ashes

Source: Angela's Ashes (1996)

“I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.”

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

Source: Lonesome Dove

Thinking

“I don't care if my love is requited or not, because being with you and the very thought of you makes me happy. The point I'm trying to make is that you are loved because I love you, Adam. Please, don't do it. Please, don't jump because I need you.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: How to Fall in Love

Love, Happiness

“… when we say, 'I don't understand,' God replies, 'I don't care.' ”.”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile

God, Understanding

“Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.”

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author

Love

“…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me…”

"I’ve never much cared for horror stories.”

Anthony Horowitz Alex Rider

Source: Snakehead

Life, Books

“To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.”

Bell Hooks book All About Love: New Visions

Source: All About Love: New Visions

Love, Communication, Learning

“Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.”

Chelsea Cain (1972) American journalist and writer

Source: Heartsick

World, Way

“Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.”

Brian Greene (1963) American physicist

Source: The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

Truth, Mathematics

“I don't care if you got knocked up. I can still rip your throat out”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“As one old gentleman put it, " Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Music

“The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.”

Stephen King book Lisey's Story

Source: Lisey's Story

“Go on caring for me.”

Franz Kafka book Letters to Milena

Source: Letters to Milena

“One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.”

Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) Mexican artist, surrealist painter and novelist

Source: The Hearing Trumpet

“What do you care more about? The kids or your hair?”

Ridley Pearson (1953) American writer

Source: Disney at Dawn

“She pulled away. "That doesn't make any sense."
"Neither does this," he said, "but I don't care. I'm sick of trying to pretend I can live without you. Don't you understand that? Can't you see it's killing me?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Understanding, Sense

“Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.”

Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power

Variation: Defend me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies myself The quote has been attributed to Voltaire, who was using it after Villars. Quoted in Connie Robertson, Dictionary of Quotations, 1998
Source: The 48 Laws of Power

“There was something about having someone care about you like that that made you feel like you could never be totally alone.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Feeling

“You have to be careful who you meet. You can’t unmeet them.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily