Quotes About Detachment

Frankly, I have no interest in politics.

I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

I really have no interest in myself.

There is something very freeing about being anonymous because nothing is expected of you; nothing is getting back to anyone, and no one cares.

There's no point in dwelling on the controversies created by others.

If crowds give you abuse, there's no point standing there and giving it them back; you just move on.

What is not in my control, there is no point thinking about it.

Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been

Where one can no longer love, there one should pass by.

I have one and only one wish: to withdraw from the world, to live far away in the countryside in a beautiful house, and to study and work there, all alone. I hope to realize that dream next yeat, when I will be thirty years old and will say goodbye to the world forever.

Having as little to do with human beings as possible - in some weird way, I'm at peace.

Free is a man who has no desires.

What we are and what we possess is but a loan- and that not for long! Do not clutch what has been given to you, for joy and desire to possess are but nails fastening you to the perishable world.

Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It's facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause other people pain. Renunciation is a commitment to let go of things that create suffering. It is the intention to stop hurting ourselves and others.

The Dalai Lama is rumored to have said that being able to have sex without any attachment would take the level of attainment of being able to eat either chocolate cake or dog shit without any preference between the two.

People who are drawn to journalism are usually people who, because of their cynicism or emotional detachment or reserve or whatever, are incapable of being anything but witnesses to events. Something prevents them from becoming involved, committed, and allows them to remain separate.

Love faded, or flipped over into loathing. Or settled somewhere in between into a kind of grinding detachment. It could snap like a dry twig, with one careless step.

Connor stared at his arm, at the huge black burn, the peeling and bubbling skin. He felt oddly detached from it all, as if he looked at some little wonder behind glass. "Would you look at that?" he said, and passed out.

Apartarse de algo que es bueno para uno es tan escupido como aceptar lo que no nos beneficia.

One must be both subjectively involved in and objectively detached from life, and that true happiness rests neither in the one sphere nor in the other exclusively, but rather in achieving a harmonios balance - however fragile - between the two.

I am ready to be alone.

But part of me knows there's an intangible downside to having complete intellectual detachment from whatever most Americans consider to be common knowledge.

If you did not really care, any experience could be entertaining.

The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.