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If the Buddhist's job is to be detached, I think that the artist's job is to be both detached and attached. — Gerald Stern

Boredom is a sign that you're detached from your own bodily experience and aren't living in the present moment. — Georg Feuerstein

There's an innocence to Ozzy Osbourne. He's mingling, but he's somewhat detached. — Johnny Depp

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes ... — Teresa Of Avila

No man is an island."
"So I'm a peninsula. Only semi-detached. — Rodney Ross

A precise, detached calliper-grip holds the stars and the quarter- moon in arrest: — Adrienne Rich

Never invest so much in anyone romantically that you lose your head. The Buddha of casual sex, I remain detached at all costs. — Edward Vilga

Surrendering means cleansing yourself completely, getting completely detached. Detachment is the only way you can rise. — Nirmala Srivastava

Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve. — Janwillem Van De Wetering

At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached. — Anna Kavan

The idea is to be detached from the fruits of our labors, which means that we do things simply for the act of doing them. — Suzanne Morrison

A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information. — Henry F. Ashurst

In order to travel far you have to be detached. — Ralph Ellison

The mentality of a successful relationship: detached and dedicated. — Bogdan Vaida

I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all. — Iain Pears

Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered. — Amy Ephron

Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached ... — Kim Chernin

Haley Joel Osment said "Party girl" which was a term they had for people who did not speak in a quiet monotone and were not severely detached. — Tao Lin

Micro: When his mind detached from his body he saw the murderer stab him repeatedly. Later, he told the detective - who retired. He blamed stress. — Anthony North

I had the idea to become really emotionally detached, and a lot of the time I've treated people that I've cared about a lot really unfairly. — George Clarke

When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached. — Anatole Broyard

The real meaning of detached love is to let others exist without forcing our will upon them. That is spiritual love. — Harold Klemp

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference! — Emil Cioran

I have all the conditions for happiness, save happiness. The conditions are detached from one another. — Fernando Pessoa

It is the unemotional, reserved, calm, detached warrior who wins, not the hothead seeking vengeance and not the ambitious seeker of fortune. — Sun Tzu

I felt so detached from all this shit, all this high-school-is-ending-So-we-have-to-reveal-that-deep-down-we-all-love-everybody bullshit. — John Green

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached. — C. Wright Mills

Sex mirrored our drinking; both defined our relationship: selfish, detached, indulgent and satisfying. — B.J. Neblett

We coexisted in a state of mutual detachment. — Patrick McGrath

He was determined to stick with his plan, convincing himself to stay neutral and detached. That's the plan!
Then she leaned over him. — Madison Thorne Grey

IF YOU ABOLISH THE DRAFT," said Owen Meany, "MOST AMERICANS WILL SIMPLY STOP CARING WHAT WE'RE DOING IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD — John Irving

I don't care about this stuff. I'm not even sure I'm a girl. I'm an eye in the sky. I am detached. I'm an idiot. — Susan Juby

The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask? — Anthony Liccione

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior. — Henepola Gunaratana

True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest. — Asger Jorn

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side. — Raymond Queneau

Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them. — Philip Neri

David Bowie is detached from everything, yet open to everything; stripped of the notion that both art and life are impossible. — Morrissey

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it. — Ida Tarbell

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. — Simone Weil

'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool. — Oscar Isaac

Separate between confident, detached, and forceful correspondence styles, and practice self-assured and empathic interrelating." Every — Scott Mercer

Do you think that angels are detached?" asked — Anne Rice

This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity. — Shmuley Boteach

Love gives us a heightened consciousness through which to apprehend the world, but anger gives us a precise, detached perception of its own. — Scott Spencer

An artist's passion shouldn't create passion. An artist's supreme virtue is to be detached and cold. — Young-Ha Kim

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It's the only place I'm completely alone - up in the air, detached from everything. — Angelina Jolie

I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy. — Isabelle Eberhardt

Woe to the person whose words have been detached from their conscience. — Tim Spiess

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it. — Hugh Leonard

The fish's eye looked as detached as the mirrors in a periscope or as a saint in a procession. — Ernest Hemingway,

Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he? — Patricia Highsmith

It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work. — Arthur Rothstein

One has to remain detached in order to triumph over others — Rollo May

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start. — Ernest Hemingway,

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation. — Rebecca Solnit

Of all the views that are detached from reality, the most delusional is that Christians are persecuted in the U.S. — Glenn Greenwald

I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia. — David Levithan

Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country. — Grover Norquist

And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world. — Albert Camus

The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God. — Radhanath Swami

The myth of the detached manipulator and compliant crowd has, since the Twenties, also been abundantly re-echoed by academic students of mass suasion. — Edward L. Bernays

Unless and until you are detached, you cannot ascend. — Nirmala Srivastava

I am a Piscean, and they have a lovingly detached attitude towards life. — Shahid Kapoor

On the outside, he's all cold and detached," she said. "But underneath that - way down deep inside - he's all cold and detached. — Harlan Coben

Observing life is too interesting to waste time living it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

Flowers just keep growing, detached and sure of themselves, she had once said,. We're the fragile ones. — Arturo Perez-Reverte

I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life. — Ranbir Kapoor

Who leaves behind all human bonds
And has cast off the bonds of heaven,
Detached from all bonds everywhere:
He is the one I call a brahmin. — Gautama Buddha

He'd somehow lived a detached life, more Like a spectator than a participant in his own existence. — Guillaume Musso

The detached observer's view is one window on the world. — Kenneth L. Pike

The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it. — Victor Hugo

My specialty is detached malevolence. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God. — Thomas Aquinas

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though. — Mark Edwards

Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings. — Eve Ensler

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached. — Simone Weil

She had preferred being on the plane, detached from the earth, the illusion of sitting still. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis. — Leslie Fiedler

I was rolling my eyes so hard that I was sure one of my retinas had just detached itself — Sarra Manning

If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do. — John Petrucci

Just being with Nakajima made me feel as if we were detached from history, and had no particular age. — Banana Yoshimoto

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult. — Prem Rawat

I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on. — Gavin DeGraw

The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people. — Emma Goldman

Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment. — Rajneesh

Somewhere, some place inside myself, I am detached. I have always been detached (in part). Always. — Susan Sontag

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others. — Shane Claiborne

Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space. — Walt Whitman

To think? That's it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain. — Rene Descartes

When even the scrupulously detached BBC is exhorting us to talk to God, you know something is going on. — Nick Hornby

Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye. — Damon Galgut

Remain in the world, act in the world, do whatsoever is needful, and yet remain transcendental, aloof, detached, a lotus flower in the pond. — Osho

Guys find me neutered, detached, invisible. I'm Switzerland. The girls Max dates are Brazil. — Stacy Kramer

Blessed be the ones that are free that have detached from possessions that can possess Thee. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Weight every purpose in the light of eternity. A trivial pursuit is that which is out side the will of God & detached from the glory of God. — Paul Washer

One cannot understand a political "system" detached from its societal context — Andrew J. Robinson

People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch. — Tawni O'Dell

Engaged, yet detached. Active, yet calm. Moving, yet still. This is how it is to be awake in the world. — Henry Emmons