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Nonchalance Quotes

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

Ogden Nash
Nonchalance, Leisure, Insouciance
Ogden Nash (1931). “Hard lines”

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

Francoise Sagan
Feelings, Playing Jazz, Nonchalance

I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to steer away from affectation at all costs, as if it were a rough and dangerous reef, and (to use perhaps a novel word for it) to practise in all things a certain nonchalance [sprezzatura] which conceals all artistry and makes whatever one says or does seem uncontrived and effortless.

Baldassare Castiglione
Cost, Use, Nonchalance

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

Earl Wilson
Air, Nonchalance, Earth

Collections are certainly abundant online. It's complicated, because it's not like these people didn't want computers, although there was some nonchalance about it. I would sometimes ask the people I interviewed if they wished they had a computer, and in a lot of cases, it was like they couldn't process the question. You don't know what you don't have, I guess.

Miranda July
People, Nonchalance, Want
"The Rumpus Interview With Miranda July". Interview with Zack Ruskin, therumpus.net. April 18, 2012.

For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.

Mary McCarthy
History, House, Nonchalance
Mary McCarthy (2002). “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays”, New York Review of Books

There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.

Franz Kafka
Two, Nonchalance, Paradise

Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens - but if you were to ask Walter, Werner had a far easier time of it and lived his life with the sanctified nonchalance of those who will do anything to avoid dissecting their souls.

Julia Glass
Soul, Citizens, Nonchalance
Julia Glass (2006). “The Whole World Over: A Novel”, Pantheon

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