Detachment Quotes

172 quotes by 139 authors

I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep,… — Haruki Murakami
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment… — H P Lovecraft
To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery(the media) that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required… — Oswald Spengler
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, you let it… — Mitch Albom
I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars. — Raymond Chandler
I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but… — Laurie Halse Anderson
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 her, all the… — Janet Fitch
Detachment doesnâ€™t mean you donâ€™t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. Thatâ€™s how you are able to… — Mitch Albom
I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more. — Tabitha Suzuma
...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it. — M.F.K. Fisher
I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a Zen… — Roland Merullo
You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb… — Douglas Coupland
What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
He is not simply looking into the mirror because he is transfixed by what he sees. Rather, the artistâ€™s success depends as much as anything… — Philip Roth
Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility. — William Osler
When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times… — Boyd Rice
I am nothing. Iâ€™m like someone whoâ€™s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there.… — Haruki Murakami
Sheâ€™s never where she is,' I said. 'Sheâ€™s only inside her head. — Janet Fitch
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness — Erich Fromm
Better to operate with detachment, then; better to have a way but infuse it with a little humor; best, to have no way at all… — Lewis Hyde

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