Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up…

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

We have control over the work of our hands, but little over the working of the soul. But yet we must yield to it,…

— George William Russell

However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the…

— Michael Foley

Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone…

— John Burroughs

“To be a warrior a man has to be, first of all, and rightfully so, keenly aware of his own death. But to be…

— Carlos Castaneda

Wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every given point in space.

— Georg Simmel

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago, divorced myself from it emotionally. It gives me an artistic…

— George Carlin

“Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts of alms, but if any good man or…

— Siddhārtha Gautama

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

— Rebecca Goldstein

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for…

— H. P. Lovecraft

No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“Frequently, when I suggest to people that they detach from a person or problem, they recoil in horror. “Oh, no!” they say. “I could…

— Melody Beattie

She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment…

— Ayn Rand