Quotes About Recklessness

Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women do when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

Like all people who have known rough times, light-heartedness seemed to her too irrational and inconsequent to be indulged in except as a reckless dram now and then; for she had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly...Her triumph was tempered by circumspection, she had still that field-mouse fear of the coulter of destiny despite fair promise, which is common among the thoughtful who have suffered early from poverty and oppression.

If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.

Who am I to know my own  motives. But I did foolhardy things.

What kind of incompetence is this, leaving dangerous fiends like us alone to commit mischief?

Those who play with fire should expect to be consumed by it.

Recklessness is beauty Ashbery says. When a car door opens in the dark at ninety miles an hour what rushes in is beauty. The wind's hymns are inaudible, the words chased off by scarecrows from the blurry fields. The murmuring heart beatless all those moments waiting to see if you will live.

And here's my advice to you. If you get the chance of the mad kind of love, grab it with both hands, and to hell with the consequences.

In the opening paragraph Goldi commits felony breaking and entering. Why does she do it? Why does she risk five to ten in the slammer or death by bear claw?

He threw the shot of whisky into his mouth and I don't believe the glass even touched his lips.

What have you done?' I whispered. She swallowed, and the guilt in her eyes was extinguished by a flare of defiance. 'This,' she said, 'is my ticket to outer space.'

Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.

Killing me loudly with your gun is not a good idea by any standard.

He had lost almost everything, and nothing was as dangerous as a person who had nothing more to lose.

A quick puke, two rails of blow and she was solid.

I spent a lot of money on booze, women and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

When I went off the rails, I didn't do it halfway. No, I flipped a few times, caught a lot of air, and then exploded in a fiery crash.

No ambition but to use up the big wages on more drink and more hopeless horses.

Acid, man, fuck that, never again, never until the next time at any rate.

It's really disheartening, the universal stupidity. I think that I wouldn't grieve at mankind's suicide through sheer evilness of heart, or through mere recklessness. There's something so damned undignified at going to destruction through sheer thickheaded stupidity. What's the use of being men if that's how you have to die.

It's really disheartening, the universal stupidity. I think that I wouldn't grieve at mankind's suicide through sheer evilness of heart, or through mere recklessness. There's something so damned undignified at going to destruction through sheer thickheaded stupidity. What's the use of being men if that's how you have to die.

Danger for danger's sake is senseless.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.