Detachment Quotes

172 quotes by 139 authors

As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside. — Haruki Murakami
Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in the invisible morning — W S Merwin
They give me a shot and a handful of pills to swallow. I stare at the thin red wall of my inner eyelid and listen… — Will Christopher Baer
Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain. — Margaret Atwood
Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone. — Haruki Murakami
This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you think… — Anna Kamienska
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 who's seeking me.… — Fernando Pessoa
We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed. — Edmond Jabes
She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling… — Joyce Carol Oates
Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you are in captivity?… — Heather O'Neill
It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a… — Susanna Kaysen
Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores… — Douglas Coupland
I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive and… — William Styron
I'm up all night against my will My medicine won't let me feel anything at all The doctor gave me sleeping pills and I took… — Joseph Arthur
He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating… — William Gibson
I am feeling fine. I remember these words and recite them. These are the things you say when asked how you are. After all, it… — Marya Hornbacher
Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others. — Margaret Atwood
She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be. — Francesca Lia Block
The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few… — Carson McCullers
Pain is always preferable to numbness. — Scott Anderson

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