Quotes about care
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Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.”

Renata Adler (1938) American author, journalist and film critic

Source: Speedboat

Literature, Reading

“Please. I am the queen of careful. Also, princess of punk fabulousness.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Princess

“In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.”

Ambrose Bierce book The Devil's Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Context: Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think... In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Intelligence

“They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.”

Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)

Problem

“I can levitate birds. No one cares.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Bird

“The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women’s intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn’t realize it.” I waited in silence”

Elena Ferrante (1943) Italian writer

Source: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Women, Children, Home, Intelligence

“I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.”

Tanith Lee (1947–2015) British writer

Source: Wolf Star

Hate, Way, Behavior

“I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.”

Susan Orlean (1955) American journalist

Source: The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession

Feeling, Passion

“Be careful--with quotations, you can damn anything.”

André Malraux (1901–1976) French novelist, art theorist and politician

“I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.”

Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

Freedom

“Here I had a wonderful man who cared for me
and I was screwing around with a self-absorbed, conniving monster who'd betrayed me
in the worst possible way.”

Kelley Armstrong book Bitten

Source: Bitten

Way

“Hey, Clary. You take care of yourself," he said. "I know you can." He paused. "And take care of Jace, that poor, helpless blond."
Jace made an obscene gesture, which actually did feel familiar to Simon, so he knew that was their thing.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

Feeling

“Approval is overrated… Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.”

Gregory Maguire (1954) Novelist

“Make them care, Mattie,' she said softly. 'And don't you ever be sorry.'
-Emily Wilcox”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

“…I finally understood what true love really meant. …that love meant 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

John Tyree, Epilogue, p. 275
Source: 2000s, Dear John (2006)

Love, Pain, Personality, Happiness

“Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.”

Andrew Lang (1844–1912) Scots poet, novelist and literary critic

Source: Adventures Among Books

Men, People, Books, Reading

“Their mother had always stressed the importance of taking care of yourself first, your family second and everyone else not at all..

darkest surrender”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Family

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

James Hilton (1900–1954) British writer

Source: Nothing So Strange

Love

“If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

World

“If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.”

Scott Hahn (1957) American theologian

Source: Hope for Hard Times

“There is nothing I dislike more in the world than people who care more about ideology than they do about people.”

Jon Ronson book So You've Been Publicly Shamed

Source: So You've Been Publicly Shamed

People, World

“Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.”

Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) American businessman and philanthropist

Future

“The rain comes down harder, darkness falls. We don't care. Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

World, Housing

“Hey, you freakin' bastard," I breathed. "You hit me again and I'll take care of your family planning.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Every Which Way But Dead

Family

“No. No games. He wanted her and didn't care who knew it. He definitely and absolutely wanted her, longed for her, wanted to do more things than there were names for with her.”

Douglas Adams book So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Source: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Game

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Letter to Thomas Cooper (29 November 1802)
1800s, First Presidential Administration (1801–1805)
Variant: If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.

People, Future, Happiness

“I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.”

Douglas Coupland Microserfs

Source: Microserfs

Life, People

“You're so afraid of being hurt that you attack first. Only those who really care about you will weather the assault of your verbal attacks and stay. The rest will fall away.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of the Night

Hurt, Weather

“You see… it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?”

Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth

Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

Holiday

“We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.”

Eugene H. Peterson (1932–2018) American translator

Source: Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology

“Global warming doesn't care what's in your bank account."
-Sinead Starling”

Gordon Korman book The Medusa Plot

Source: The Medusa Plot

“Whats not to love is hardly a reason to love. And the catch of your life is not the same thing as the love of your life. Be careful of that subtle but rather crucial distinction.”

Emily Giffin book Where We Belong

Source: Where We Belong

Love, Life

“It is a do-it-yourself era: health care, real estate, police investigation. Go online and f*ing figure it out for yourself because everyone’s overworked and understaffed.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Health

“Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara”

Robert Jordan The Shadow Rising

Source: The Shadow Rising

Dead

“I am a runner. That's what I do. That's who I am. Running is all I know, or want, or care about.”

Wendelin Van Draanen (1965) American writer

Source: The Running Dream

“Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.”

Patrick Lencioni (1965) American writer

Source: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

“Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

Time

“… the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Variant: The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Hope

“People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.”

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

People, Thinking

“Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.”

Ina May Gaskin (1940) American midwife

Source: Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta

Nature, Problem, Maternity

“The roles we play in each other's lives are only as powerful as the trust and connection between us--the protection, safety, and caring we are willing to share.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?”

Beverly Cleary (1916) American writer of children's books

People, Girl

“I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.”

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

Money, Question, Thinking

“She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“You are the male I might have been. You are the potential I had and lost. You are the honor and the strength and the kindness she needs. You'll take care of her. I want you to take care of her.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

“No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.”

Dick Gregory (1932–2017) American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur

World, Home

“History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles.”

Alison Goodman (1966) Australian science-fiction writer

Source: Eona: The Last Dragoneye

History, Suffering

“It doesn't seem to matter what we think… The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do.”

Shannon Hale Princess Academy

Source: Princess Academy

Thinking

“Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Life

“I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Home, Housing, Box

“‎Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.”

Jean Webster book Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

“The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do.”

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor

Address to the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Boston, Massachusetts (30 July 1903), printed in "Account of the Boston Riot," Boston Globe (31 July 1903) http://web.archive.org/20071031084056/www.historycooperative.org/btw/Vol.7/html/235.html

World

“Be careful what you’re doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Girl, Boy

“What’s the point of being a magician if you can’t wave your wand and make the people you care about feel better?”

Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow

Source: The Serpent's Shadow

People, Feeling

“It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.”

Donna VanLiere (1966) American writer

Source: Finding Grace: A True Story About Losing Your Way In Life...And Finding It Again

God

“I knew I had to be careful. I had to keep my distance. If she knew how much I still cared, it was all over. I wouldn’t be able to walk away again. The first time was hard enough.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Time

“Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

Books, Study, Learning, Reading

“Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.”

Jasper Fforde book Something Rotten

Source: Something Rotten

Death, Personality

“Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.”

Norman Douglas (1868–1952) British writer

Cooking

“Can you drive any faster?" Tohr demanded.
"I got the pedal to the medal" The angel looked back. "And I don't care what I have to mow over”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Reborn

Angels

“Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

“DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.”

Richard Dawkins book River Out of Eden

Source: River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

Music, Dance

“The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.”

Chuck Klosterman (1972) Author, Columnist

Source: I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

Personality

“It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.”

Maya Angelou book Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

Source: Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

“Two years? That's entirely too long. If you want, we can take care of that. After two years it's pure therapy.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

“I’m just trying to wake up - I’m so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first. I wouldn’t care if it was just for an hour, as long as I was properly alive and awake…”

Philip Pullman book The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

Life, Sleep

“Claire stretched out against the wall and kissed it. "Glad to see you, too," she whispered, and pressed her cheek against the smooth surface. It almost felt like it hugged her back.
"Dude, it's a," Shane said from behind her. "Hug somebody who cares.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Lord of Misrule

Kiss

“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms (1929)

Wisdom, Men

“It (the sun) didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.”

Jeannette Walls book Half Broke Horses

Source: Half Broke Horses

Sun

“Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: The Time of My Life

Love, Truth, Perfection

“If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh.”

Benjamin Hoff book The Tao of Pooh

Source: The Tao of Pooh

People, Animals

“Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

People, Silence

“Naruto: I bet you're dying to know my name!
Gaara: I couldn't care less.”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

“Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.”

James Gleick book The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Source: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

“All I need is the power to be able to protect my comrades. So long as I can have the strength to do that, I don't care if I'm weaker than everyone in the world.”

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Fairy Tail, Vol. 1

World

“Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

Life, Beauty

“No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you're still alone.”

Diane Chamberlain (1950) American writer

Source: The Silent Sister

People

“It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer "universal health care."”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

Random Thought
2000s, Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays (2006)
Source: Knowledge And Decisions

People, Health, Thinking, Universe

“It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.”

John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach

“I don't care how impossible it seems.”

David Byrne (1952) Scottish alternative rock musician and promoter of world music

“It was easier when all we wanted to do was eat them and take their stuff,” he grumbled.
And it had been easier when he hadn’t cared if he made any of them cry.”

Anne Bishop book Written in Red

Source: Written in Red

Cry

“My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared”

Mary Kay Ash (1918–2001) Entrepreneur

Life, Way

“Without a doubt… the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Rainshadow Road

Cars, Parting

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

LOVE (1972)
Variant: Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest accomplishment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Wise, Relationship, Cute, Life

“And I would do it again. I love you, Jace Wayland-Herondale-Lightwood-whatever you want to call yourself. I don't care. I love you and I will always love you, and pretending it could be any other ways is just a waste of time.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Love, Way, Time

“I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but… I promise you, the right man won't care.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Love, Life, Feeling

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor

Variant: Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.

Life, People, Time

“I think infatuation is like a garden. If tended and cared for, it grows into love. If neglected or abused it dies. The only way to have eternal love is to never let your heart forget what it's like to live without it.
-Vane”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Night Play

Love, Way, Thinking, Heart