Quotes About Detachment

It's a talent I've developed-one thing I've learned recently. How to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm

Hold on a second. I can talk,' I say. 'Guys.' I look at all three of them in turn. 'One thing that they do in here is give you a lot of time to think. I can't explain it; once you come in, time just slows down-' 'Well, you don't have any interruptions, that's probably it-' 'Also I think the clocks are a little off-' I wave my hand. 'Point is, you have time to think about how you got here...

If he wants me to stay away, he should leave me alone.

The secret to life is not to take it personally. The things people do and say are not always

At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it...

If it comes, let it come. If it stays, let it stay. If it goes, let it go.

I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.

I don't get involved with the music scene any more. It's just alien to me.

When you're not attached to anything, nothing can harm you. When people become attached, they can be harmed. I know this, so I don't attach myself to anything, really.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

Every day I don't Google my name, there's another beautiful day.

I don't lose any sleep over people calling me names.

I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally or emotionally.

We in a nasty business, at times. I don't even say that in a good or bad way. It's just no place to get too emotional.

You can be happy if you are willing to let go of your past and leave yourself unencumbered so you can fly freely.

That won't be necessary. They aren't living with us. They can get their own damn homes. If they want to hang around, they can sit out on the roof and play with their guns.

His unique skill had always been to absorb the talents and knowledge of others, use what he needed and discard the rest. He never allowed anyone to get to close. He kept the world at arm's length in order to look down on it.

Nonetheless, there are in all periods people who feel themselves in some fashion to be *apart*.

It's gone! he repeats, almost ecstatically. That's because you let it go, Jacob tells him.

I have nothing, so I am slave to nothing. I have nothing to do, so nothing makes me its slave.

What will happen will happen and I won't waste my time worrying.

Life is too short to fight every idiot along your way.

We co-existed in peaceful detachment

I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.