Don’t Know Why I Bother Quotes

Don’t Know Why I Bother Quotes – The phrase “why do I bother” usually refers to dropping something when they cause trouble. It can also be a rhetorical question for troubled times. Asking this kind of question can also be a way to get a new perspective on things. Depending on the context, there are many ways to use the phrase and similar lines like “why bother”. These “why bother”/ “don’t know why I bother” quotes are a few notable lines to know:

• “Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”
  – Kurt Vonnegut
  
• “If you know you can do it – if you can already chart every day in your future – then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.”
  – Gina Barreca
  
• “My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?”
  – Rhys Ifans
  
• “When something’s painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it’s nothing but bad stuff?”
  – Shane Koyczan
  
• “How can something bother you if you won’t let it?”
  – Terri Guillemets
  
• “I don’t plan my life or analyze things. Nothing can be predicted about the future, no one can put a finger on what’s going to be the next big thing. Why bother?”
  – Ranvir Shorey
  
• “I am fully present wherever I am. Why bother being in a community or neighborhood and not being fully present? I think that’s colonization. I’m not interested in that.”
  – Mark Bradford
  
• “Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?”
  – Alan Cumming
  
• “The things that have been most popular with people have always been a total surprise, and so I’ve never felt like I could really truthfully predict public taste, so why bother?”
  – Samuel Ervin Beam
  
• “Someone could be amazing at what they do, but if you don’t like them, why bother hiring them?”
  – Chip Conley

Other “Don’t Know Why I Bother Quotes”

• “To change, to convert? Why bother?”
  – Lionel Blue
  
• “If you’re going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you’re going to half-ass it, why bother?”
  – Ashley Lorenzana

• “Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?'”
  – Sydney J. Harris
  
• “You don’t do characters that are the same as you, otherwise why bother to act?”
  – Tom Selleck
  
• “If halfway love is all you want or all you care to give, why bother with love at all and only halfway live.”
  – Marty Robins
  
• “I believe that when you’re in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner… or why bother? So in that sense I’m an incurable romantic when it comes to men.”
  – Cameron Diaz
  
• “Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didn’t, and then you lived with the choice you made.”
  – Nicholas Sparks
  
• “But if you sit around thinking what to do and end up not doing anything, why bother even thinking about it? You’re better off going out on the town and having a good time. No, we have to think and act. That’s what we’re doing here, and that’s what you have to do.”
  – Elvia Alvarado
  
• “I like working really fast. The best ideas are the first ones that come into your head – so why bother thinking of any more?”
  – Charli XCX
  
• “Stuck somewhere between try harder and why bother”
  
• “Sometimes I wonder why I bother”
  
• “I don’t regret not saying goodbye. Why bother when you’re a stranger?”

Check out more of our quotes with our “Maybe it’s Time to Give Up Quotes” and “Unsupportive Family Quotes.”