Detachment Quotes

172 Detachment quotes by 139 unique authors

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 doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’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 artist’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. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there.… — Haruki Murakami
She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’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
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 can’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

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