Detached Quotes

173 quotes by 152 authors

Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful. — C.S. Lewis
If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're… — Mitch Albom
Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen… — Robert Hughes
She emptied herself of Fabio and of herself, of all the useless efforts she had made to get where she was and find nothing there.… — Paolo Giordano
Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and took out only… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am I supposed to… — Audrey Niffenegger
she was aware of his love - how could she not? She perceived it every time he looked at her. He was not demonstrative, but… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where itâ€”sheâ€”is waiting for me. Do you know about… — Audrey Niffenegger
As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose.… — Anne Rice
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space. — Walt Whitman
Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing… — Daphne du Maurier
She watched me with a creepy sort of detached curiosity, as if I were a bug crawling across the sidewalk in front of her. I… — Rachel Vincent
Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and… — Tennessee Williams
We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to… — Federico Fellini
Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and… — Ralph Ellison
I felt angry, frustrated. I felt I didn't belong, not in my church, not in my home, not in my skin. Amidst the chaos, i… — Ellen Hopkins
Theater of Cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty… — Antonin Artaud
And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world. — Albert Camus
I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia. — David Levithan

Who Wrote These Detached Quotes

152 authors contributed a total of 173 Detached Quotes, led by these top contributors: