Quotes About Detachment

I've been out now for so many years that I am not surprised at what someone may occasionally say. It really doesn't faze me.

When you're around for as long as I have, nothing surprises you any more.

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment. ( A Qualified Farewell )

You're not human tonight, Marlowe.

You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell.

He leaned his back against the workbench and looked me over without haste, without interest, as if he was looking at a slab of cold meat. Perhaps he thought of people that way.

I filled and lit my pipe and sat there smoking. Nobody came in, nobody called, nothing happened, nobody cared whether I died or went to El Paso.

Good-bye, Linda. I hope you find what you want.' 'Good-bye,' she said coldly. 'I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.

It was something he had never quite understood about himself. He had seen thousands of men die in nearly ten years of war and could look on it at times with a near-total detachment, but an animal suffering - be it a horse or needra injured in battle, or the stag now dying - moved him deeply.

leave me. And it was a great sense of relief. The

And the freest of all is the philosopher who thinks so little of the ceaseless flow of time as to step out of it. This is why the philosopher often appears ridiculous in the practical affairs of life, because he or she has stepped out of the rush of time.

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die. (Oddly, philosophy departments have forgone turning this into an enrollment-boosting slogan.)

Food, sex, drug, or alcohol addictions • Relationship failures • Abuse of any kind • Religious frustration and/or anger • Emotional detachment

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go

A lone walker is both present and detached from the world around, more than an audience but less than a participant.

The Buddha then repeated the meaning of this in verse: 1. "Distinguish units of letters / units of words and phrases / people who foolishly cling to these / are like elephants in a quagmire.

Those men who live with the greatest intensity are often the ones who seem to take least interest in life.

And then there were the wallflowers who had recognized for years that the thing was hopeless, who had found in that information a kind of calm. They no longer tried, with a bright and desperate effort, to sustain a conversation with somebody's brother, somebody's usher, somebody's roommate, somebody's roommate's usher's brother... The category of wallflower who had given up on all this was very quiet, not indifferent, only quiet. And she always brought a book.

Amazing. You were so attached to it, and it still disappeared for you. "Attached! I was whocking that cloud with everything I had! Fireballs, laser beams, vacuum cleaner a block high..." "Negative attachments, Richard. If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production out of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.

If you bind too strongly to things and people, when they disappear, it will not go maybe even a part of ourselves?

Birini koÅŸulsuz sevmek, kim olduÄŸunu ve ne yapt???n? umursamamakt?r. KoÅŸulsuz sevgi, d??ar?dan bak?ld???nda ald?rmazl?kla ayn? görüÅŸe sahiptir.

They got that way, Garraty had noticed. Complete withdrawal from everything and everyone around them. Everything but the road. They stared at the road with a kind of horrid fascination, as if it were a tightrope thay had to walk over an endless, bottomless chasm.

They got that way, Garraty had noticed. Complete withdrawal from everything and everyone around them. Everything but the road. They stared at the road with a kind of horrid fascination, as if it were a tightrope they had to walk over an endless, bottomless chasm

I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.