Quotes About Detachment

We are slaves to ourselves. And we think that we are free. The greatest freedom that we have is the freedom to walk away from ourselves.

I don't talk about politics. Not getting involved in politics at all.

I don't get involved in football! I haven't got a sporty bone in my body.

A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing.

Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.

Whether I am the Champion or not is irrelevant to me. I am not attached to it.

The people who don't like me are completely irrelevant to me, just as I'm irrelevant to them.

When a person go to jail, what people don't realize is you're alive, but you're dead to the world. People forget about you. When you go to jail, you're a story.

It's always an interesting experience with the 'Saw' films, when a sequel comes out that I didn't have anything to do with, creatively, because here's this idea, this story, and this character that I created for James Wan, but now it doesn't need me anymore.

I existed before the mainstream. Why would I join them? I watched the mainstream come up, and now I'm watching it collapse. I don't want to be a part of that.

It's more fun to watch without joining in.

Inutile piangere sul latte versato. (No use crying over spilled milk.)

What kind of heart does one have to have in order to be able to get rid of these, without regret, as if they were empty beer cans?

Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it ... it possesses you.

People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don't feel very much.

A journalist should never join the Establishment, no matter how tempting the blandishments. It is our job to hold power to account, not join it. In a world that increasingly obsesses over the gods of power, money, and fame, a journalist and a writer must remain detached, like a bird on a rail, watching, noting, probing, commenting, but never joining. In short, an outsider.

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

When you study Buddhism, you should have a general house cleaning of your mind. You must take everything out of your room and clean it thoroughly. If it is necessary, you may bring everything back in again. You may want many things, so one by one you can bring them back. But if they are not necessary, there is no need to keep them.

According to Buddhist philosophy, nothing ever really belongs to you. Even so, you can still give stuff away.

Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without thought, capable of simply being, not thinking, caring, or hurting. Then she could be...free.

Some people—like a festering finger or a leg shattered beyond repair—just needed to be removed.

Most people make themselves look bad. I just stand to the side and don't get in the way.