Quotes About Detachment

Everything you own must be able to fit inside one suitcase; then your mind might be free.

I just let it roll. Like a hot turd down a hill.

When I get out, I thought, I am going to wait a while and then I am going to come back to this place, I am going to look at it from the outside and know exactly what's going on in there, and I'm going to stare at those walls and I'm going to make up my mind never to get on the inside of them again.

But I didn't want to be anything anyhow. And I was certainly succeeding.

A i urreni njerëzit? Unë nuk i urrej ata ... Unë vetëm ndjehen mirë kur ata nuk janë përreth.

I was still tough but it wasn't the same. I had to withdraw. I watched people from afar, it was like a stage play. Only they were on stage and I was an audience of one.

Não sou esnobe; eu simplesmente não estou interessado no que a maioria das pessoas tem pra dizer, ou no que elas desejam fazer - principalmente com o meu tempo

I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I wanted to live alone,I felt best being alone, cleaner,,

The tigers have found me, and I do not care.

We all sat there and looked at each other and didn't look at each other. We chewed gum, drank coffee, went into restrooms, urinated, slept. We sat on the hard benches and smoked cigarettes we didn't want to smoke. We looked at each other and didn't like what we saw.

Living was easy - all you had to do was let go. And have a little money. Let the other men fight the wars, let the other men go to jail.

You realize when you're plucked out of the mainstream that it doesn't need you or anybody else.

Siempre es bueno saber que puedes vivir sin una persona sin la que pensabas que nunca serías capaz de vivir.

My only ambition is not to be anything at all; it seems the most sensible thing.

Que sonho bom: nunca mais olhar na cara de outro ser humano.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

I just don't like people, I don't even like myself

No entendía la televisión. Me resultaba estúpido pagar para ir a ver una película o al teatro y sentarme junto a otra gente para compartir sus emociones. Las fiestas me ponían enfermo. Odiaba la comedieta, el juego sucio, el flirteo, los borrachos aficionados, los coñazos.

I don't like people

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Hold everything loosely.

Not our circus, not our monkeys," I murmur, and he nods.

Just because some people are fueled by drama doesn't mean you have to attend the performance.