“La Cigale, ayant chanté Tout l'Été, Se trouva fort dépourvue Quand la bise fut venue. Pas un seul petit morceau De mouche ou de vermisseau. Elle alla crier famine Chez la Fourmi sa voisine, La priant de lui prêter Quelque grain pour subsister Jusqu'à la saison nouvelle. Je vous paierai, lui dit-elle, Avant l'Oût, foi d'animal, Intérêt et principal. La Fourmi n'est pas prêteuse ; C'est là son moindre défaut. « Que faisiez-vous au temps chaud ? Dit-elle à cette emprunteuse. - Nuit et jour à tout venant Je chantais, ne vous déplaise. - Vous chantiez ? j'en suis fort aise. Eh bien ! dansez maintenant. »” ProcrastinationOrganisationTravailInsoucianceRaisonHiveréTéPenserCampagneTravaillerLeçonRationalitéSaisonsInsouciantPréparationPrévoyanceRaisonnable Author:Jean de La Fontaine
“I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him back, in return, his old insouciance, and rich, original spontaneity and fullness of life.” MenGivingBookGovernmentRichTheoryReturnGive MeOriginalsNewspapersFullnessSpontaneityWorking ManFullness Of LifeInsouciance Book:Fantasia of the Unconscious Source: Fantasia of the Unconscious
“India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age” LongAgePainPassionPleasureKnownChildhoodYouthGainsIndiaInnocenceMaturityAbandonRipePain And PleasureInsouciance Book:The Quintessence of Nehru Source: The Quintessence of Nehru
“To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art.” ArtLiteratureSpeakPerfectAnimalTreeMovementSpeechWoodsTriumphGrassSentimentsFlawlessRectitudeRoadsideInsouciance Book:The poetry and prose Source: The poetry and prose
“Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.” WayWantGivingYearsHumansMayDifficultForgetPleasureTeachReturnOffersPerceptionIndifferentSublimeRelaxationBreezeYear OneInsouciance Author:Barry Lopez
“The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. Perhaps as an old man I will take great comfort in pottering around in a lab and gently talking to students in the summer evening and will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them.” IfsMenTryingMayI CanWholeSufferingUniverseSoundTalkingAcceptingStudentsComfortSummerStructureConvictionWorthyEveningPerceiveOpponentsPrimeOld ManCan NotLabsSummer EveningWorthy OpponentsInsouciance Author:Julian Assange
“I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.” LeisureNonchalanceInsouciance Book:Hard lines Source: Hard lines
“A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.” BelieveMeanLongCountryEnoughCareHistoryQuietLateHighestGuiltTrainDon't BelieveToleranceAspirationLazyChairsCollectivesAttributesIrritationBritish HistoryChapsSmellyQuiet LifeSaggingInsouciance Author:A. A. Gill
“I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.” IfsSoulSometimesLostFeltEmotionLosingCardsMy SoulUselessGamblingHeroicGambleVisitingLightnessNuisanceInsouciance Author:Charles Baudelaire