Quotes About Detachment

I don't like having feelings," Eric said coldly, and he left. That was a tough exit line to top.

Ruffian or devil, black as hell or bright as angels, thenceforth he was nothing to me.

Do you hate people?" "I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.

I am self-contained and self-reliant; your opinion is nothing to me; I have no interest in you, care nothing for you, and see and hear you with indifference.

I don't want to know anything. I am not curious!

You must know,' said Estella, condescending to me as a beautiful and brilliant woman might, 'that I have no heart

He did nothing, but he looked on as few other men could have done.

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Foul weather

Do not be afraid of the empty place. It is the source we must return to if we are to be free of the stories and habits that entrap us.

I'm not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don't. Move on and move out.

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.

Aden would phone before he left, trying to patch things up, but she could see how easy it would be, now, to break things off permanently. And now that it had reached that stage, it seemed like the obvious thing to do. She wasn't upset, or relieved – just calm. It always made her feel that way: burning bridges, driving people away. Simplifying her life. She'd

Isn't it better to live in ignorance of everything--asphalt and macadam, vehicles, telephones, televisions--to live in bliss without knowing it?

He considered. "When you come into a situation, don't want anything. Don't want approval. Don't want to scare people. Don't want anyone to like you. Don't need to prove anything to them or make them angry. Then you can see what's really happening.

They weren't quite in their teens, yet their faces had the early trappings of apathy.

the longing for wisdom itself is wisdom' - 'search for a fixed point within yourself, my child, that the world cannot reach' - regard everything that happens as a lifeless painting and do not let yourself be touched by it

abstract' comes from a Latin verb which simply meant 'draw away' (abstrahere).

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.

The next time you think that there's something that you "can't live without", wait for a week and then see if you're still alive or not

The good man. He is still enhancer, renouncer. In the time of detachment, in the time of the vivid heather and affectionate evil, in the time of oral grave grave legalities of hate - all real walks our prime registered reproach and seal. Our successful moral. The good man.

At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.

Go away...I'm alright.