Quotes About Detachment

Non ragionam di lor, ma guarda e passa15—"Let us think no more about them, but look once and pass on.

You know that if I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

I see all the while how folks could say he was queer, but that was the very reason couldn't nobody hold it personal. It was like he was outside of it too, same as you, and getting mad at it would be kind of like getting mad at a mud-puddle that splashed you when you stepped in it.

Ou talvez quando se aceita alguma coisa, ela deixa realmente de importar, quer a gente queira quer não.

and Judith, the young girl dreaming, not living, in her complete detachment and imperviousness to actuality almost like physical deafness.

and the romantics end up anchorites in the desert.

There's folks you just don't need. You're better off without em. Your life is just a little better because they ain't in it.

Look like you've come up short on the number of fucks you need to not give

You don't even care enough about us to hate us, do you?

I can live without love." And with that she left Westley alone.

At two o'clock this afternoon, alarm! The Americans! An American detachment takes over the hotel. We are free!

My father passed me. He looked briefly at me as you might at a stump or a broken machine or anything that's specific only in that it's in your way, to walk around it as my father did me.

Have love in your heart, but be smart and express your compassion with restraint and detachment.

I don't put much stock in remembering things. Being able to forget is a superior skill.

The pleasures that arise from sense-objects are bound to end, and thus they are only sources of pain. Don't get attached to them. And: When a man reaches a state where honor and dishonor are alike to him, then he is considered supreme. Strive to gain such a state.

She taught me to close myself off from the sorrow of others so that I might survive

When one has to leave behind almost everything, it hardly matters what one takes.

made to the other women when I joined them at night. The pleasures that arise from sense-objects are bound to end, and thus they are only sources of pain. Don't get attached to them.

Priya thinks, The things we give away are no longer ours to control.

The pleasures that arise from sense-objects are bound to end, and thus they are only sources of pain. Don't get attached to them.

Perhaps only when one possessed a greater treasure could one let go of this world.

Now that she no longer cares whether tears blotch her letter, she feels no need to weep.

I shall not weep for any of them, nor regret their fate, nor shake one feather in sympathy.

I don't know, maybe I just wanted to be alone. Maybe I just didn't want to be social because antisocial people have a whole lot less to lose.