Detached Quotes

173 quotes by 152 authors

Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings. — Eve Ensler
To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference! — Emile M. Cioran
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular… — Anne Carson
What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from… — Edith Wharton
You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective. — Abba Eban
Worry is the product of feverish imagination working under the stimulus of desires... It is a necessary resultant of attachment to the past or to… — Meher Baba
Surrendering means cleansing yourself completely, getting completely detached. Detachment is the only way you can rise. — Nirmala Srivastava
Now you are changed people. Your personality is different. It's shining through your spirit. In that spirit, you have to see everything. All your conditionings… — Nirmala Srivastava
You should get completely detached about everything and you will enjoy, just enjoy. But in that also, one has to judge. Are you really enjoying… — Nirmala Srivastava
Unless and until you are detached, you cannot ascend. — Nirmala Srivastava
The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick on to anything,… — Nirmala Srivastava
I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider,… — Rachel Cusk
Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks like a soap… — Isabel Allende
I am a Piscean, and they have a lovingly detached attitude towards life. — Shahid Kapoor
Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story - as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else assimilation - but… — Simon Schama
I vaguely remember we had an air-raid shelter in our yard. We lived in a semi-detached house with a small garden in the suburbs of… — Robert Powell
I was only 21 when I bought a five-bedroom detached house in Stoke-on-Trent that was way outside of my financial status in life. I did… — John Caudwell
I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though. — Mark Edwards
I'd try to explain that it's not really negativity or sadness anymore, it's more just this detached, meaningless fog where you can't feel anything about… — Ritu Ghatourey
Suddenly you came to my life like a storm. You changed and rearranged my life. My mind feeds by you. You are my mental pleasure.… — Jasmine Dutta

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