Recklessness Quotes

“When you have a persistent sense of heartbreak and gutwrench, the physical sensations become intolerable and we will do anything to make those feelings disappear. And that is really the origin of what happens in human pathology. People take drugs to make it disappear, and they cut themselves to make it disappear, and they starve themselves to make it disappear, and they have sex with anyone who comes along to make it disappear and once you have these horrible sensations in your body, you’ll do anything to make it go away.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk

“The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“I'm just as reckless for you as you are for me.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

“I feel the familiar pull—I am drawn, Icarus to his sun. I have been burned already, and yet here I am again.

~Anastasia”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker

“She laughed at bad jokes, stayed out too late, and overslept too often. Charity Hill loved holidays and she hated budgets and the alarm clock.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“Coming so close to death as a young child, only to resurface again into your life, imbued in me for a long time a brand of recklessness, a cavalier or even crazed attitude to risk. It could, I can see, have gone the other way, and made me into a person hindered by fear, hobbled by caution. Instead, I leapt off harbour walls. I walked alone in remote mountains. I took night trains through Europe on my own, arriving in capital cities in the middle of the night with nowhere to stay.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

“Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don’t care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.”
― D.H. Lawrence , Studies in Classic American Literature

“Ripples are made by those reckless enough to jump into the ocean.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“When playing the game, sometimes you didn’t want your opponent to respect you as smart, rational, and clever. Sometimes you wanted the opponent to believe you were completely unstable and utterly reckless.”
― F.C. Yee, The Legacy of Yangchen

“Toss me one of your pencils!"
"Have you gone mad?" I cried even as I removed the pencil from my cloak pocket and threw it at his head.
It began to transform before it even reached him, elongating and flashing through the shadows--- a sword. I regretted aiming for his head then, but Wendell caught it with the grace of a trained swordsman, which of course he was.
Watching Wendell with a sword is like watching a bird leap from a branch--- there is something thoughtless about it, innate. One has the sense that he is less himself without a sword, that wielding it returns him to the element most natural to him.
He drove the sword into the nearest sheerie, and before it had fallen he had spun round to slash at the one behind him, slicing it open like overripe fruit. The other three fell just as easily.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

“Artificial Intelligence is not the problem, heartless, senseless, reckless human intelligence is.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“People worry about artificial intelligence, for they don't understand it. As a behaviorist, I worry about human intelligence, for the potential of artificial intelligence is nothing compared to that of human intelligence. Artificial Intelligence is not the problem – heartless, senseless, reckless human intelligence is.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“Power and recklessness are a dangerous combination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“If used wildly all power is poison.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“We didn't trudge through 3.5 billion years of evolution, so that we could carry on with the same freaking acts of recklessness and selfishness as we used to in the jungle.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“A society oblivious to moderation, in time causes its own downfall.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“This is the problem with the population, everybody wants all the freedom in the world, but none of the responsibility that goes along with it. And such a society is no more advanced than a bunch of cave people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“Reckless power turns even a saint into tyrant.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Son, I know...I know the way a body tempers his darkest proclivities with smaller sins. But it worries me, how it seems like you ain't tempering yourself no more. How it seems like you're trying to tear your own life into pieces.”
― Allie Ray, Children of Promise

“Don't know what it is about trouble that draws you men. [...] I'm scared to death of doing something wrong, and there ya'll go chasing it."

"We chase the good things, too, sometimes," he told her hoarsely. "It's just that the wrong ones are so much easier to catch.”
― Allie Ray, Children of Promise

“If you wanna rebel, rebel out of responsibility, not recklessness – rebel out of accountability, not impulse.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work

“Back then, I didn’t realize his willingness to remain harmful, that the desire to cause harm was a choice. Each time life presented him with an alternative to protect or hurt, he chose the latter without fail. He showed up intentionally to cause emotional harm, and that was who he was. He was a man who recklessly treated me, and I had no right to doubt his abilities.”
― Elelwani Anita Ravhuhali, From Seeking To Radiating Love: Evolution is unavoidable in the process of overpowering doubt

“Why would teenage boys go out on a boat in a storm?” Stacey wondered. “Well, now that I say it aloud, it kinda answers itself.”
― J.L. Bryan, The Trailwalker

“The real fool is not necessarily the one who does foolish things, but rather the one who knows those things are foolish and still takes a fancy to them.”
― Criss Jami

“I had a dream I could buy my way to heaven
When I awoke, I spent that on a necklace,
I told God I'd be back in a second
Man, it's so hard not to act reckless.”
― Kanye West

“Free will is not a license for recklessness, but a call to exercise responsibility and consider the impact of our decisions on others”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“When you're falling off the cliff it's too late to wonder if there might have been a better way up the mountain”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

“Again that long-ago phrase - a recklessness, an abandonment, a rejection of me by me - had returned to me. I was going to die anyway, wouldn't live long anyway, any day now I'd be dead, all the time, violently murdered - and that, I now understand, gave a certain edge. It offered a different perspective, a freeing-up of the fear option.”
― Anna Burns, Milkman

“It’s not true fun unless you regret it immediately afterwards.”
― Domagoj Kurmaić, Mother of Learning: ARC 3