Best Nonchalant Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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“To be chalant is to care. It is to care so much, so fiercely, and so recklessly that it makes you look like a goddamn fool. And let’s be honest, nobody wants to look like a fool anymore. That’s the root of this whole 'nonchalant' sickness. It is pure, unadulterated fear.”

Passion Fear Courage Bravery Authenticity Vulnerability Modern Society The New Sincerity Nonchalant Chalant

Book:Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“Romance is a game where the smiling would spar, overcoming shells that totally fake are, thinking of how the opposing force feels, even if dating with her can’t be real, the game mainly is delving minds ever slow, from nothing to love getting, not for the show, you need just experience, patience, soft calm, just sometimes to nonchalant be with your palms…”

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Book:На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...

Source: На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...

“Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.”

“I see it everywhere now, this creeping plague of absolute militant indifference. Nonchalant this, nonchalant that. What the fuck is actually going on here?”

Truth Society Identity Authenticity Nihilism Dark Humor Social Commentary Modern Culture Nonchalant Performative Apathy

Book:Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“And so we find ourselves at the scene of another murder," Milo said, coming back to the sitting area. He didn't seem much troubled by the fact, for he lit another cigarette and settled back into his chair. I couldn't help but think that he looked particularly content.”

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Book:The Essence of Malice

Source: The Essence of Malice

“The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?”

Death Wealth Poverty Society Deaf Careless Self Centered Detached Insensitive Lukewarm Dispassionate World Affairs Unsympathetic Distant Nonchalant Unconcern Unmoved Govenment

Author:Anthony Liccione

“When did we all agree that giving a damn was a character flaw?”

Passion Human Nature Authenticity Vulnerability Sincerity Apathy Emotional Intelligence Modern Society Social Commentary Nonchalant

Book:Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“Enough with nonchalance in the name of practicality! Let us now rise as tornado and wipe out all apathy.”

Social Justice Injustice Indifference Accountability Apathy Indifferent Complacency Complacent Nonchalance Nonchalant

Book:Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

“I'm definitely not non-chalant. I have to leave nonchalant at home when I'm working on something, otherwise I just don't feel like I'm committed, and I've gotta be fully committed.”

Feels Home Committed Nonchalant

Author:Guy Pearce

“The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool - as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and disengaged, in control but nonchalant, knowing but ironically self-aware, and above all inscrutably undemonstrative.”

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Author:Martin Filler

“I like very dry humor. I dont like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are nonchalant. I like characters that are sort of monotone and based in dark comedy.”

Character Dark Comedy Dry Subtlety Over The Top Dark Comedy Nonchalant

Author:Emily Rios

“To me, making a horror movie is about how you can present similar genre familiarities, but present them a little bit differently. Part of what interests me is the nonchalant realism of it, because you don't get that in the big studio horror movies. I like seeing someone walk around a house and sift through the drawers, and things like that, because that reminds me of what I would do, and of weird personal choices that people would make. That, in contrast to seeing someone get chased with a knife, makes it all the more interesting.”

People Choices House Interest Interesting Horror Contrast Familiarity Nonchalant

Author:Ti West

“I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.”

“My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass On a gravel strewn bed, Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman, Burning and dripping with poisons, Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant way Its belly, swollen with gases.”

Way Turns Path Saws Air Objects Sweet Bed Summer Fairs Raised Legs Burning Poison Recalls Belly Foul Shameless Dripping Swollen Lustful Gravel Nonchalant

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.”

Six Ice Nurse Cream Ice Cream Parlor Nonchalant Escorting

Book:Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

“He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk.”

World Way Walks Records Moved Speed Attempting Nonchalant

Book:The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld

Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld

“Rohan, one of us is an unmarried man with superior mathematical abilities and no prospects for the evening. The other is a confirmed lecher in an amorous mood, with a willing and nubile young wife waiting at home. Who do you think should do the damned account books?" And, with a nonchalant wave, St. Vincent had left the office.”

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Book:Mine Till Midnight

Source: Mine Till Midnight

“He shook his head in wonder. "You are magnificent." "I keep telling everyone that," she said with a nonchalant shrug, "but you seem to be the only one to believe me.”

Believe Said Seems Wonder Believe In Me Magnificent Nonchalant

Author:Julia Quinn

“My shrug was so nonchalant it would make a cat jealous”

Cat Jealous Nonchalant

Book:The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two

Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two

“If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good at it, will it break your heart if it turns out you never got around to it? If you wake up one day at eighty, will you feel nonchalant that something always took precedence over a daily commitment to discovering your creative spirit? If not--if this very thought fills you with regret--then what are you waiting for?”

“My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.”

Giving Years Kind Play Watches Pieces Tvs Theory Mom Lessons Give Me My Mom Sneak Upstairs Soaking Nonchalant

Author:Vanessa Carlton

“By the time we hit the streets they were silent and closed in on us, and they had assumed the Nonchalant Look, an expression that said, I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor. But they were, and we were their six lunatics, so we behaved like lunatics.”

Looks Said Streets Expression Six Silent Ice Nurse Cream Ice Cream Parlor Nonchalant Escorting

Author:Susanna Kaysen