Amen Quote by Henry Martyn

My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I feel that we are often taken out of our comfort zones, pushed and shoved out of our nests, because if not, we would…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away…

— Jean Dubuffet

“When the sense of «not belonging» is tolling the bell for true happiness, it infuses people into accepting life as a failure, or a…

— Erik Pevernagie

Giving up attachment to the world does not mean that you set yourself apart from it. Generating a desire for others to be happy…

— Dalai Lama

When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky....They will never be the same again…

— NoViolet Bulawayo

I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that every-thing will change for the…

— Anne Frank

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

Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.

— Dalai Lama

I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.

— Louise Erdrich

To remain attached to the temporal, to the changing is to remain within the world of misery because the temporal will be taken away.…

— Rajneesh

“It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. The need to attach themselves makes wandering people strike…

— Elizabeth Bowen