Quotes About Detachment

My favorite quote from Thoreau is also from Walden," said Gamache. "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Oh, no,' she responded, with all the emotion one greets a stain on an old T-shirt.

How do you make yourself not like someone?

One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of imagination which suffuses them and style alike with that grotesquerie and disquieting distortion characteristic of morbid vision. Only a cynic can create horror--for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving daemonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock them.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

we can use self-observation to keep cognitive dissonance in check. To some degree, we can compensate for it by: (1) knowing it exists; (2) knowing what our bias is likely to be; and (3) applying metacognition—the "What am I not thinking about?" question. Be as detached as you can be, as if you were asked to debate both sides of the issue.

No matter how many times you let someone go, it never got any easier.

Isolation, I think, is the worst thing in the world.

And there is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.

I was just going to stand here and watch it happen. I wasn't going to say a fucking thing. Why? Because what did it matter? What did any of it matter?

The pleasures of acquisition are well known—says the thief, the former thief—but who ever mentions the quiet joy of letting things go?

When you sit down with a book, you are separating yourself out of your world for a few hours and getting lost in the story.

One of the reasons that problem solving is so difficult is that we are often too close to the problems to truly understand them.

Sometimes the person you want most, is the person you're best without.

I dont know why we all hang on to something we know were better off letting go.

Obsession is feeling fearful that you may be losing him; detachment is knowing that he may be losing you; and apathy is the past tense of both.

When the past calls, let it go to voicemail. It has nothing new to say.

Dont really look back at my ex's. Some things just look better in the trash.

Thank god she is somebody elses problem now!

Trying not to care at all is very difficult when you care so much.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

Here's the thing about drama: once you stop caring what people say,it will all go away.It's that easy.

Sometimes the best way to get someones attention is to stop giving them yours

I used to give a fu.. till I lost my emotions.