Detachment Quotes

172 Detachment quotes by 139 unique authors

Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest… — Sylvia Plath
Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone. — Tracy Chapman
The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results. — Frederick Lenz
In order to make room for more of God in our life, we need to let go of things that are currently filling our heart… — Ralph Martin
Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are… — A. G. Mohan
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. — Meister Eckhart
When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain… — Joyce Carol Oates
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too. — Simone Weil
What 'Scream' was great at was presenting ironic detachment and then making you actually care about the people that were having it, and juxtaposing it… — Joss Whedon
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the… — Virginia Woolf
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. — Kurt Vonnegut
We are predators, Whose all seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment. — Anne Rice
The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb… — Jeanette Winterson
The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it. — Ernest Hemingway
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one… — Ayn Rand
Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past. — Jon Krakauer
Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the… — Banana Yoshimoto
I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever… — Margaret Atwood
Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into… — John Burroughs
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain. — William Faulkner
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

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