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