Detachment Quotes

172 quotes by 139 authors

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a… — Emile M. Cioran
Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do… — Lorrie Moore
There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired. I walk through school and all I want… — Elizabeth Scott
How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you? — Ray Bradbury
Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can… — Rabindranath Tagore
I suffer from life and from other people. I canâ€™t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at… — Fernando Pessoa
Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest… — H.G. Wells
Some jobs required a certain level of detachment; a turning off of emotions in order to do the things that needed to be done. — Julie James
The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter. — Sigmund Freud
detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. — David Levithan
There are always moments when one feels empty and estranged.â€¨ Such moments are most desirable, â€¨for it means the soul has cast its moorings and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. — John of the Cross
Surrendering means cleansing yourself completely, getting completely detached. Detachment is the only way you can rise. — Nirmala Srivastava
Joy only can be achieved through complete detachment, the detachment which is egoless and superegoless. — Nirmala Srivastava
Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self. — Nirmala Srivastava
If you develop a detachment, through thoughtless awareness, God will take over, He will do your work. He will look after you. You should have… — Nirmala Srivastava
Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachments to… — Mahatma Gandhi
For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough. — Guy Spier
In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so… — Ram Dass

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