Nonchalance Quotes

“Ah, today is not really a good day, but my afterthought suggests it is, since I have had the chance to learn that life cannot be exemplary all the time. It is good to be taken aback once in a while because only then, would I value the state of being nonchalant.”

“The nonchalance irritated her more because it was not assumed.”

“After all, I was dressed in linen and so retained a certain capacity for nonchalance.”

“One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.”

“Death and destruction are necessary to the health of the world, and therefore as natural, and lovable, as birth and life. Only priests and born cowards moan and weep over dying. Brave men face it with approving nonchalance.”

“She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness...A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there.”

“Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.”

“The rain that falls wherever it pleases. I want to be that rain.”

“She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.”

“He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.”