“I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“Solitude has the potential to bring the best thoughts to you. When you are not involved in the emotional, entangled in the… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough. — Guy Spier Copy Share Image
So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
What 'Scream' was great at was presenting ironic detachment and then making you actually care about the people that were having it,… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. In one aspect, yes, I believe… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It… — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
Particularly on social media, there is that level of detachment, some people feel like they can say whatever pops in their head . — Bella Heathcote Copy Share Image
Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
