Quotes About Detachment

Ah made yous cunts in ma ain image. Yous git oan wi it; yous fuckin well sort it oot. That cunt Nietzsche wis wide ay the mark when he sais ah wis deid. Ah'm no deid; ah jist dinnae gie a fuck. It's no fir me tae sort every cunt's problems oot. Nae other cunt gies a fuck so how should ah? Eh?

It was a long time since he'd done any actual clinical work, and obviously his sojourn among the academics at Saro University had attenuated the professional detachment that allows members of the healing arts to confront the ill without being overwhelmed by compassion and sorrow. He was surprised at that, how tenderhearted he seemed to have become, how thin-skinned.

Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your own business and not be interested anymore.

La tristeza se había cristalizado en indiferencia.

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

Why be so attached to what we are bound to lose anyway?

The wise man desires nothing; he does not judge, he makes no plans, he keeps his mind open and his heart at peace.

Consciente de que se requiere una gran ligereza para desprenderse del suelo, echó todo por la borda, se deshizo de sus bienes terrenales y eliminó sentimientos y deseos superfluos, quedándose sólo con lo esencial, escribió unas cuantas cartas y por último se tendió en su cama para no levantarse más.

I am a clinical zombie.

Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.

Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.

After the success of 'Rumours,' we were in this zone with this certain scale of success. By that point, the success detaches from the music, and the success becomes about the success. The phenomenon becomes about the phenomenon.

I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken, as well as those outside.

Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them.

As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.

No matter what has happened, always behave as if nothing had happened.

Groan and forget it.

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

When you are accustomed to anything, you are estranged from it.

More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don't know how healthy it is, but I am creating a very private bubble that I live in.

After twelve years in prison, I think I have listened to the radio maybe 30-40 times in all, and only when I have been without even a TV.

[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.