Quotes About Detachment

Somebody will look after things. It's none of your business. Forget about it. Let other people do the worrying.

Would they quarrel so much, if they were indifferent?

Every possession is a loss

The more flesh, the more worms. The more possessions, the more worry.

I've always been somewhat isolated. I've borne my isolation with me through the crowd as the snail bears its house. For some people isolation isn't a circumstance in which they find themselves, it's an innate characteristic. And through this act my isolation is likely to increase; no matter how it ends, whether badly or well, for me the "punishment" will be solitary confinement for life.

It would be better to disconnect from everything, to float free from my body, to be nothing in an endless night of nothing.

Will you tell me how you came to be living…" He stops, as if trying to find the words. "As you were." I remember the care I'd given that he not know. How could I explain the way time seemed to slip from my fingers, the way I became incrementally more detached, more unable to reach out a hand to take anything I wanted?

I have stood apart from the world for so long. That has made it hard for me to navigate being in it, but it has also made me an excellent observer.

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

But, as your saints teach and we have always known, attachment enslaves you. Only those free from it see the world as it really is and have power over themselves and all things.

I watched people like a scientist watches an experiment. Never did I feel like I was looking in a mirror. Always did I feel I was here and they were there.

It's easy to think the minefield wasn't that bad once you're safely watching other people get blown up.

She felt detached from all aspects of her life. She had no time anymore to feel. All that time she used to waste feeling, and analyzing her feelings, as if they were a matter of national significance.

It was something to do with her sense of always feeling separate from everybody else, as if things that worried them couldn't possibly worry her, as if she were immune from the ordinariness of life.

Do not engage. Remove yourself from the emotional minefield.

Tess and Felicity sat on the sidelines of life smirking at the players.

How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

No One Needs You That Much

My own apathy is bone chilling.

There's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.

Tallulah has not left this room for days now, maybe longer. The edges of Tallulah's days feel ragged and unformed. Scarlett still comes and goes with food and drinks and treats but Tallulah no longer asks her about the outside world because she no longer cares, all she cares about is sleep.

Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in.