Quotes About Detachment

Letting go is harder than you can imagine.

After all, people are always separable.

I have to let go of some other things in order not to crash right into the ground. I no longer give a fuck. I mean, I didn't think I gave a fuck before. But that was amateur not-giving-afuck. This is stop-at-nothing, don't-give-a-fuck freedom.

I am nowhere near wanting to kill myself. But I can understand feeling so detached from your own life. To feel that your connection to everyone else is so thin that all it would take is one decisive snip to be separated completely. If i don't cling, I drift. I feel that no one is holding me. In my life, I am the only one who holds.

To be surrendered means to have no strong emotion about a thing: "It's okay if it happens, and it's okay if it doesn't.

I reached Odell convinced that if I never spoke to another human being for the rest of my life, it would be too soon.

Don't get me wrong, I wish them the best. I just don't feel the need to see them again.

You'll be talking to him and he'll walk away—not angry but just sort of finished with you.

Soy el ser más egoísta del mundo porque quise ser independiente. Eso me alejó de todos, me convirtió en una isla.

learning not to give a f*ck and not to focus on the non-essentials and the superfluous is the way forward.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it

I could see what everyone was feeling, but I was not with them and could not feel it. "You

She held herself apart, always.

mainly that it was important to treat oneself as a kind of stranger, to remain unattached and unprejudiced in your own case.

When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world.

I just think about how much worse something could be, and I'm like, 'Alright, cool, whatever.' I'm nonchalant.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

I'm at that point again where it don't matter where he is to me anymore.

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

So fuck off to fuck-off land and leave me alone.

I began to think that Melvin's approach through books was one way to examine these questions. His life required a certain amount of detachment from the community, and that was attractive to me.

The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and remains free from entanglements.

One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...

To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.