Detachment Quotes
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Detachment Quotes & Sayings
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Charlotte views her younger selves with a certain detachment. They are herself, but other incarnations, innocents going about half-forgotten business.
— Penelope Lively
For me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.
— Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
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
indifference but detachment
— Anonymous
Surrendering means cleansing yourself completely, getting completely detached. Detachment is the only way you can rise.
— Nirmala Srivastava
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Expressing intense feelings usually portends better results than emotional detachment does.
— Mark Murphy
And I took a seat in the grandstand of philosophical detachment to fall asleep observing the cannibals do their death dance.
— Eugene O'Neill
Asperger's syndrome is associated with organization, focus, innovative thinking, and rational detachment.
— Graeme Simsion
I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more.
— Tabitha Suzuma
When there is nothing to catchAnd nothing is catching you,
You are free;
From all your separations! — Sayantan Sen
A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.
— Edward Abbey
Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue-don't you realize that?
— Steven Erikson
Let love take hold of you and change you. At first through its presence then through its absence.
— Elif Shafak
He watched and recorded their subversive activites with love, amusement, and detachment.
— Kurt Vonnegut
And Judith, the young girl dreaming, not living, in her complete detachment and imperviousness to actuality almost like physical deafness.
— William Faulkner
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[ ... ]one should act as if the things he cherished the most were already lost or broken.
— H.J. Brues
We coexisted in a state of mutual detachment.
— Patrick McGrath
When you notice your world exactly as it is - free from judgment and with detachment from anticipated outcomes - that is Zen.
— Dan Tricarico
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
— Susan Sontag
Some jobs required a certain level of detachment; a turning off of emotions in order to do the things that needed to be done.
— Julie James
The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
— Gustave Flaubert
To be honest, I'm trying to maintain a Buddhist detachment about the whole thing to stop it taking ten years off my life.
— Mark Haddon
I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.
— Randa Haines
The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results.
— Frederick Lenz
I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
Violet, surveying him with a cruel detachment, had never felt less married.
— Louis Auchincloss
Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.
— Jaggi Vasudev
The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Detachment does not mean to neglect what Krishna gives you. Detachment means to do the needful as an offering to Krishna.
— Radhanath Swami
Humor is detachment, and detachment sets you free.
— Marty Rubin
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
— John Irving
Joy only can be achieved through complete detachment, the detachment which is egoless and superegoless.
— Nirmala Srivastava
The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing.
— Chris Matakas
Narcissism, detachment, schizoid personality, sociopath - these things run rampant in the human race in varying degrees.
— C.C. Hunter
The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Restrict yourself to choice and refusal; and exercise them carefully, with discipline and detachment.
— Epictetus
Nothing is better for "spiritual advancement" & the detachment of the flesh than a close reading of the "Erotic Dictionary.
— Remy De Gourmont
The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
— Victor Garber
She examined with curious detachment - so rare for her to feel anything these days - and discovered that what she felt was unease.
— Stephen Lloyd Jones
Wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every given point in space ...
— Georg Simmel
The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.
— Radhanath Swami
Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.
— Albert Ellis
There is music playing somewhere but I can't hear it.
— Bret Easton Ellis
We co-existed in peaceful detachment
— Tsitsi Dangarembga
It was my letting go that gave me a better hold.
— Chris Matakas
There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.
— Rudyard Kipling
Attachment is the source of pain, but detachment is the source of joy.
— Debasish Mridha
The happy result of detachment is inner freedom, freedom from worry about bodily comfort, honor, and wealth. Considering
— Teresa Of Avila
Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
— William Osler
If you simply get detach from yourself, it gets easier for you to see, how you perceive life.
— Roshan Sharma
...detachment from anger is one part of wisdom.
— Steven Saylor
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
— Meister Eckhart
Most evangelicals have bought into the need for apparent indifference when writing about massively important things.
— John Piper
If I don't see the reason of someone being my friend, chances are, we are just floating and I need a ship to set sail.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.
— Richard Rohr
Our detachments move us toward freedom and death.
— Mason Cooley
The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.
— Idries Shah
Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.
— Radhanath Swami
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
— Sharon Salzberg
The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.
— Sigmund Freud
There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.
— Marya Mannes
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.
— Simone Weil
I still don't know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it.
— David Levithan
The essence of the Way is detachment.
— Bodhidharma
