Detached Quotes

“I felt kinda detached”

— N.R. Walker

“Fully detached beats semidetached.”

— Daniel H. Pink

I ain't never detached myself from Gary.

— Freddie Gibbs

My specialty is detached malevolence.

— Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

— Leslie Fiedler

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

— Isabelle Eberhardt

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

— Philip Neri

“The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?”

— Anthony Liccione

Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

— Truman Capote

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

— Shahid Kapoor

A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information.

— Henry F. Ashurst

Unless and until you are detached, you cannot ascend.

— Nirmala Srivastava

I feel so detached from what I am on the outside. The person I am on the inside is very separate.

— Tulisa

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

— Radhanath Swami

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to…

— Val Kilmer

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

If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are…

— John Petrucci

“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.…

— Susan Juby

What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her…

— Charles Bronson

Noise is manufactured in the city, just as goods are manufactured. The city is the place where noise is kept in stock,…

— Max Picard

“But over the years I came to realize that living in a detached way is, in fact, a withdrawal from life, an…

— David Brooks

You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to…

— George Rodger

A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when…

— Edward Coke

You should get completely detached about everything and you will enjoy, just enjoy. But in that also, one has to judge. Are…

— Nirmala Srivastava

If you try too much to change the outside, that shows that you are still attached. If a man tries to be…

— Rajneesh

When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses,…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The Tao is infinite, eternal. Why is it eternal? It was never born; thus it can never die. Why is it infinite?…

— Laozi

I really wanted to be able to make the music that acknowledged the metaphysical aspect of extreme sports because when I started…

— Taraka Larson

“He walked out the door and with each step my heart breaks. He'd be gone for days with long silences between each…

— J.A. ANUM

There is a period in one's life - perhaps not longer than six months - when one lives in two worlds at…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Transcendence or detachment, leaving the body, pure love, lack of jealousy-that's the vision we are given in our culture, generally, when we…

— Robert Bly

I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free…

— Charles Lindbergh

“It may be easy to feel detached from happenings not close to us. We are comparatively objective about events and incidents that…

— Krishna Murthy Annigeri Vasudeva Rao

I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early…

— Robert Anton Wilson

In order to settle down in the quiet of our own being we must learn to be detached from the results of…

— Thomas Merton

Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for…

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

— Simone Weil

Once you are on the set as an actor, you are detached for three or six months.

— Jackky Bhagnani

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

— Iain Pears

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

— Anna Kavan