Detachment Quotes

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

— May Sarton

Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

— Margaret Atwood

“We co-existed in peaceful detachment”

— Tsitsi Dangarembga

“We live in a society where detachment is almost essential.”

— Philip K. Dick

Show me disloyalty and I'll show detachment.

— Anonymous

I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.

— Raymond Chandler

In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“cause we don't hide, We parade our pride!”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

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

— Radhanath Swami

Wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every given point in space.

— Georg Simmel

“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. ”

— Simone Weil

“Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.”

— Ashim Shanker

Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Alex O'Loughlin

The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time,…

— Jeanette Winterson

Some jobs required a certain level of detachment; a turning off of emotions in order to do the things that needed to…

— Julie James

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

— David Brooks

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we…

— John le Carre

For the Christian mystics, detachment meant to leave attachment so that God could enter you and take over completely and you could…

— Gerald Stern

I've never been passionate about acting, and I find more and more that I work to live the life I want to…

— Jeremy Irons

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…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“What did I get in return? Coldness and emotional detachment. You are selfish and bitter and you wouldn’t know a good thing…

— Tarryn Fisher

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“It stung this new rejection, but it was also a relief to put an end to the ambiguity and incertitude. I had…

— Catherine Sanderson

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

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

— Anonymous

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

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

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

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

“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

“Assimilate ubiquitously. Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false. Examples of this in everyday life: "oh, I need to…

— Henry Barthes

“Allowing attachments to people/things create a compulsive addiction in us to be controlling. This “control” (fueled by fear of loss) fools us…

— Gary Hopkins

“Detachment is hard on your heart — and it actually creates blocks to what you want. Non-attachment, on the other hand, is…

— Danielle LaPorte

“I release my parents from the feeling that they have already failed me. I release my children from the need to bring…

— Anonymous

“To be a warrior a man has to be, first of all, and rightfully so, keenly aware of his own death. But…

— Carlos Castaneda

“Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts of alms, but if any good…

— Siddhārtha Gautama

“I never said it was easy to find your place in this world, but I’m coming to the conclusion that if you…

— Charlotte Eriksson

Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent... But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary,…

— Mitch Albom