He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Pain is a form of forced detachment. Like the loved one who hurts you again and again and again, the more they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“—Alone, quite alone. You have no fear of that. And you know what that word means? Not only to be separate from… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Precisely this one, which I had intended to be published anonymously so that it could never build any reputation on the part… — Viktor Frankl Copy Share Image
If you develop a detachment, through thoughtless awareness, God will take over, He will do your work. He will look after you.… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
There are always moments when one feels empty and estranged. Such moments are most desirable, for it means the soul has cast… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The benefits of detachment in the face of intense emotional activity can’t be overstated. It doesn’t cut you off from your heart… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my… — Ed Westwick Copy Share Image
I am feeling fine. I remember these words and recite them. These are the things you say when asked how you are.… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to control outcomes or results, although most of us have been programmed from a very young age to believe… — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know… — Fernando Pessoa 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
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
However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that… — Haskell Wexler 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
“When you have inferiority complex, people appear to be mocking you about it. Trying to detach from people won't work. Detach from… — Shunya Copy Share Image
I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
“As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad.… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Maybe being an artist is a kind of detachment. You're in the cave, you're isolated, you're apart from everything and it's there… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
The property of the estate owners (pomeshchiks) doesn't belong to any particular detachment, but to the people as a whole. Let the… — Maria Nikiforova Copy Share Image
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Sri Krishna said: Arjuna, when one thoroughly casts off all cravings of the mind, and is satisfied in the Self through the… — Gita Press Copy Share Image
Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renunciation and detachment they are lovingly focused… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
