Quotes About Detachment

It frightens you how practical you can be, how cold, even with your own.

Break any ties—good or bad, emotional or spiritual—with any former relationships. You can't move forward into the future if you have a foot stuck in the past.

Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a house fire destroys not only our worldly goods, but our attachment to what's gone.

I'd held the world too close and it had slipped from my arms.

You can only drive yourself crazy if you have no distance from the world

Whatever comes, let it come. What stays, let it stay. What goes, let it go.

Not my species, not my problem.

Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.

I adore simple pleasures, they are the last refuge of the complex. - A Woman of No Importance 45. Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the 19th century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters of culture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.

Somewhere, some place inside myself, I am detached. I have always been detached (in part). Always.

It's not a love of the old as such. It's simply that the process of aging or deterioration provides the necessary detachment - or arouses a necessary sympathy.

He did not feel as if he were inside a Pillar of Darkness in the middle of Yorkshire; he felt more as if the rest of the world had fallen away and he and Strange were left alone upon a solitary island or promontory. The idea distressed him a great deal less than one might have supposed. He had never much cared for the world and he bore its loss philosophically.

When we are present to what is, we are right up front with the expansion of time, but when we make a mistake and get frozen in what was, a layer of detachment builds.

To achieve happiness, one must be willing to let go of what no longer serves them.

He tells me to go away, but I don't think love is anything like water. It doesn't slip off that easily.

Etchenike fue observado con desdén y detenimiento, es decir con atención desatenta o sea como un animal raro pero repulsivo.

The respectable world and I are on easy terms. I ignore it when I choose, and it does likewise with me.

Let] go of your attachments: your attachment to being right, to having total control, or to living forever. This process of letting go is integral to the process of becoming whole.

So if you ask yourself from what exactly are you to be detached, the only possible answer is that you are to give up your attachment to the way you think things are. When you do, you get out of your own way and

Practice loving detachment.

Death wasn't frightening to a man alone. The great beyond held no terror when one had managed to avoid attachments here on earth.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

I sleep at night; I do not think about anything. I put everything in my bag and go to sleep. Whatever you can do to me, it does not affect me. I started my life, my own life. I did not inherit it.

Stay out of the loop, the club, the inner circle.