Quotes About Detachment

When you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your anger, jealousy, and envy will disappear, and even your sadness will simply disappear if you don't take things personally.

you make a habit of not taking anything personally, you won't need to place your trust in what others do or say.

No, make me forget you, then I'll be free.

I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.

We've known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush. There's been only one possible resistance: to not take it seriously.

Y un día, al salir del trabajo, no fue a su casa, sino que salió de la ciudad. No veía nada a su alrededor, no sabía si era verano, otoño o invierno, si caminaba por la orilla del mar o junto al muro de una fábrica; hacía ya mucho que no vivía en el mundo; su único mundo era su alma.

no puedo odiarlos porque nada me une a ellos; no tengo nada que ver con ellos.

Los periódicos tienen para mí una gran ventaja y es que no hacen ruido. Su aburrimiento es silencioso; no se entrometen; es posible dejarlos a un lado, meterlos en el cubo de la basura.

não posso mais odiá-los, porque nada me une a eles; não temos nada em comum

Estaba completamente encerrada en sí misma y en su sufrimiento. ¿Podía sacarla de su cerrazón al menos la visión del sufrimiento de otors? No. Porque el sufrimiento de los otros ocurría en un mundo que se le había ido de las manos, que ya no era suyo.

Unless and until you are detached, you cannot ascend.

I do not want to choose which one of you I must love or hate. Here, I am free to do neither. I want no part of your bitterness.

Keep your love, I have no use for it anymore.

I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.

I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.

As your love grows, you will find that your attachment to this world will begin to fall away.

Enter into the activities of the world, without getting overjoyed by success or totally put out by failure. Whether they love you or hate you, it doesn't much matter. What matters is stillness.

I don't write about you because you don't deserve to be immortalised in my words.I'll leave you to float around in my mind until forgetfulness comes to take you away.

Let's try living our lives by not letting our minds be ruled by materialistic elements.

Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love or allegiance. At the very apex of callousness you will find only ones and zeroes.

He says everything like it happened to someone else.

I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.

And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there.

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.