I’m already in the late stages of advanced detachment…

“She also mentioned how close my balcony was to yours; so close that even an old lady like herself could leap between the two…

— Karen Hawkins

Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of…

— Zach Woods

What becomes decisive to a Justice's functioning on the Court in the large area within which his individuality moves is his general attitude toward…

— Felix Frankfurter

I tore my right shoulder to pieces - three external tears, a labrum tear, and a detachment of the bicep tendon.

— Alex O'Loughlin

“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