Quotes about care

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“But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

“Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

“The only thing that separates any one of us from excellence is fear and the opposite of fear is faith. I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for, perfection is God’s business.”

Michael J. Fox (1961) Canadian-American actor

“Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.”

Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road

“I care about Alec," Jace said, fixing Magnus with an unswerving gaze. "I care about him more than I care about myself.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

“Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But… ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just… well, things happening one after another.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“There is a love of wild Nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love ever showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

“That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.”

Mark Twain book A Tramp Abroad

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The little cares that fretted me,
I lost them yesterday
Among the fields above the sea,
Among the winds at play.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author

“You know, you've never really cared about anyone," he said. "But someday you will, and it's going to hurt. It's going to hurt a lot.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

“There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by my self.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

“You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

“People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.”

Edward St. Aubyn (1960) British writer

“It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.”

Katherine Paterson book Bridge to Terabithia

“Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.”

Jim Butcher book Small Favor

“I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

“She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.”

Steve Martin book Shopgirl

“Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

“Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me.”

P. C. Cast book Hunted

“That's a shame. I'm sure somebody, somewhere, cares.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

“But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

“Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember - no matter how ordinary things seem between us - I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

“People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

“Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted.”

Isabel Allende book The Infinite Plan

“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.”

Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) American women's rights activist

“When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.”

Jean Shinoda Bolen (1936) American psychiatrist

“Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

“Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.”

Martin Scorsese (1942) American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor

“I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together”

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright

“God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

“I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

“As for the goddess’s answer, I did not care. I would have no need of her. I did not plan to live after he was gone.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”

Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author

“A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.”

John Grogan (1958) American journalist

“I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.”

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer

“The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Jesus insisted that the greatest ritual service is the service of human need. It is an odd thing to think that, with the possible exception of that day in the synagogue at Nazareth, we have no evidence that Jesus ever conducted a ‘church’ service in all his life on earth, but we have abundant evidence that he fed the hungry and comforted the sad and cared for the sick. Christian service is not the service of any liturgy or ritual; it is the service of human need. Christian service is not monastic retreat; it is involvement in all the tragedies and problems and demands of the human situation.”

William Barclay (1907–1978) Church of Scotland minister and academic

“Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

“One must care about a world one will not see.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

“A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“A good leader is someone who knows what he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

“It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.”

Anne Brontë book Agnes Grey

“I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation.”

Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)

“The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

“Harry Dresden: I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.”

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

“I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.”

Stephen King book Night Shift

“In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair… the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.”

Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer

“Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

“I don't care," Clary said. "He'd do it for me. Tell me he wouldn't. If I were missing-"
"He'd burn the whole world down till he could dig you out of the ashes. I know," Alec said.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

“Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Americanah

“Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.”

Harlan Ellison book Paladin of the Lost Hour

“Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.”

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

“Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.”

Maria Montessori (1870–1952) Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician

“I guess I’m just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation’s laws.”

S.J. Perelman (1904–1979) American humorist, author, and screenwriter

“Who knows, perhaps he doesn't care about me at all and look at the others in just the same way.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think.”

Marguerite Duras book The Lover

“Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

“We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.”

Thomas Harris book Hannibal

“Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

“All through your life your soul takes care of you… your soul is alive and awakened, gathering, sheltering and guiding your ways and days in the world. In effect, your soul is your secret shelter.”

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher

“Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her—doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

“When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

“When I ask how old your toddler is, I don't need to hear '27 months.' 'He's two' will do just fine. He's not a cheese. And I didn't really care in the first place.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

“That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

“Whatever you do, protect those you care for. Without them, life is more miserable than you can imagine.”

Christopher Paolini book Brisingr

“It doesn't matter. Take Eddie's blood. Take Belikov's blood. Take your own for all I care. But If she doesn't want to give hers, then that's all there is to it. She said no. This conversation is done.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

“You lose nothing when fighting for a cause… In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.”

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist

“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”

Oscar Wilde book De Profundis

“God knew my needs and took care accordingly.”

Louis Zamperini (1917–2014) Italian-American middle distance runner

“But now," says the Once-ler, "now that you're here, the word of the Lorax seems perfectly clear. UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.”

Dr. Seuss The Lorax

“God doesn't care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.”

Jeffrey R. Holland (1940) Mormon leader

“He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

“If you care about what others think of you, then you will always be their slave.”

James Frey (1969) American screenwriter and media presenter

“Solitude was corrupting me. I needed company and care.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita

“Be careful with whom you associate, especially when you feel emotionally vulnerable, because negative people can steal the dream right out of your heart.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

“Stories don't care who takes part in them. All that matters if that the story gets told, that the story repeats. Or, if you prefer to think of it like this: stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself.”

Terry Pratchett book Witches Abroad

“Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.
And men take care that they should.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

“Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.”

Terry Pratchett book Soul Music

“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself……”

Paramahansa Yogananda book Autobiography of a Yogi

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

“Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher

“Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom.”

Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) French philosopher (1930-2004)

“It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.”

David Foster Wallace book The Pale King

“It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.”

Stephen King book The Body

“Our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.”

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer

“She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

“If you will focus on meeting other people’s needs, God will always make sure your needs are supplied. God will take care of your problems for you.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

“Yes! I'm! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don't understand! When I hear people use the wrong words, I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I! And I always have a piece of string! That's the kind of person I am!”

Terry Pratchett book The Wee Free Men

“Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you?
You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months.
For the last three months?”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest