Detachment Quotes · Page 4

detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.

— David Levithan

Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.

— Epictetus

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

— William Osler

In our willingness to step into the unknown, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.

— Deepak Chopra

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

— Victor Garber

We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.

— Edmond Jabes

Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in…

— W. S. Merwin

“It's life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people…

— Douglas Coupland

Hitler overestimated the importance of [technology]. As a result, he would count on a mere handful of assault-gun detachment or the new…

— Erich von Manstein

I wanted to turn everything off, too. Just press a button - click - and shut myself down. Turn off my heart,…

— Kevin Brooks

“Detachment means you have disentangled yourself from the process that you call “body,” and from the process that you call “mind,” because…

— Sadguru

Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self.

— Nirmala Srivastava

There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the…

— Rudyard Kipling

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying…

— Ram Dass

What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are…

— Anonymous

I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself…

— Roland Merullo

To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that…

— Oswald Spengler

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

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from?…

— Anonymous

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

— Rajneesh

Today I detach from other people's dramas. I love them and pray for them. I am a role model of peace for…

— Doreen Virtue

Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the…

— Joyce Carol Oates

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

— Marya Mannes

She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed…

— Francesca Lia Block

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the…

— Jon Krakauer

“Like petals what's beautiful is often delicate. Take care of the ones you love by not holding them too tightly”

— Nicola An

Surrendering means cleansing yourself completely, getting completely detached. Detachment is the only way you can rise.

— Nirmala Srivastava

Joy only can be achieved through complete detachment, the detachment which is egoless and superegoless.

— Nirmala Srivastava

We must not forget that its attachment only that leads to suffering. So the most direct path to happiness and peace is…

— Senoraroy

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

— Rebecca Goldstein

Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

— Ram Dass

We are predators, Whose all seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.

— Anne Rice

“She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“[...]one should act as if the things he cherished the most were already lost or broken.”

— H.J. Brues

I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any…

— Tabitha Suzuma

Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.

— Tracy Chapman

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters…

— Sigmund Freud

“Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when…

— Michael Bassey Johnson