Detachment Quotes · Page 4

The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of…

— Ernest Hemingway

“You must understand, owing to my loss of faith in life, I had gradually, inevitably embarked upon a small world of my…

— Lawrence G. Taylor

Detachment does not mean to neglect what Krishna gives you. Detachment means to do the needful as an offering to Krishna.

— Radhanath Swami

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

— Isabel Allende

In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

— Aristotle

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

— Anonymous

The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results.

— Frederick Lenz

As a journalist, you want to try to maintain that objectivity and detachment.

— Susanna Reid

A lot of times in spiritual communities, detachment is considered to be an expression of being spiritually evolved when often, we have…

— Tara Brach

“The practice of Detachment encourages the positive aspects of your life to become dominant, while providing a clear path for the negative…

— Gary Hopkins

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

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

— 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…

— Charlotte Eriksson

When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It…

— Boyd Rice

“Operation Detachment,” is more of a misnomer than anything. It was fought as part of a large American invasion directed by steps…

— Charles River Editors

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

I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments…

— Pierre L. van den Berghe

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

Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.

— Jaggi Vasudev

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

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

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

— Sharon Salzberg

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