Quotes About Detachment

love. It was good to do with it, but also good to be able to do without

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does a man who makes his observations while he himself is a prisoner possess the necessary detachment? Such detachment is granted to the outsider, but he is too far removed to make any statements of real value. Only the man inside knows. His judgments may not be objective; his evaluations may be out of proportion. This is inevitable. An attempt must be made to avoid any personal bias, and that is the real difficulty...

There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are not concerned in them

What mattered was not caring. And the best way not to care was to surround yourself with noise and people.

She had felt lonely for years, but now she truly was alone.

And the best way not to care was to surround yourself with noise and people.

Some lives are not ours to hold on to;

Oh well, whatever, nevermind.

Without this vital contact with the spontaneous, grassroots theology, academic theology anywhere can become detached from the community of faith and so be not much more than an exclusive conversation carried on among the guild of scholars, and incapable of communicating life in Jesus Christ to others.

I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me, because I've looked into what's coming, and I don't need anything from here.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn about anyone else

Real loss only occurs when you lose something that you love more than yourself. Anonymous

Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?

Don't I deserve to finally be free of you?

Be that cat! she reminded herself. The one that stayed out of reach, and never - ever purred.

How can you not care?" "Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page.

Mais les larmes sont celles d'une joie désespérée. Tout a été largué, mais ce tout n'a été que ça : le corps que j'ai livré n'était qu'un souffle d'air et celui que j'ai embrassé se trouve déjà à des années-lumière. Comment, dans un tel dénuement, ne pas exprimer sa détresse ?

I don't think you feel much of anything anymore.

Then, like anything else that can't be understood, that can't be influenced, we let it go by.

In psychoanalysis, the pain that trolls your nerves detaches from your body once you talk about it. Naming that pain takes the sting out of the incident, makes it mortal, manageable, even extinguishable.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others,; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.

He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.