Quotes About Detachment

But it was not kindness he lacked; it was interest. His gaze passed over her as if she were not there.

I am not yet sure how to sever the love from the lover without occasioning some degree of carnage.

She sees the girl, Iris, sitting with her legs crossed at the table, and it strikes Esme as odd that she herself had been sitting there too, just a moment ago. She sees the chair that had been hers—that is still hers. It is angled away from the table and there is her plate, with the half-eaten potato. Amazing how easy it is to get up and walk away from a table, from a plate of food, how no one stops you, how it wouldn't occur to anyone here that they could stop you.

Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to. When you have to.

More and more I was beginning to feel like a spectator in my own life.

And... well, she had done it. Just as she said she would. She felt nothing - which was good - no, which was great . You could get anything you wanted in this world if you didn't feel. It was just a shame that she couldn't feel happy about it. She would've settled for feeling satisfaction at what she'd done, but feeling nothing at all was better than feeling bad. If that was all there was, then that was all she wanted or needed

Hadn't another wise man, the Buddha himself, warned about the evils of attachment?

you should become detached from your daily occupations, conscientiously devoting to them the time prescribed but with perfect freedom of heart.

C'est quand on a tout donné, quand on ne tient plus à rien qu'on possède tout.

the practice of solitude had given him a love for it, as happens with every big thing which we have begun by fearing, because we knew it to be incompatible with smaller things to which we clung, and of which it does not so much deprive us as it detaches us from them. Before we experience it, our whole preoccupation is to know to what extent we can reconcile it with certain pleasures which cease to be pleasures as soon as we have experienced it.

I live so resolutely apart from physical contingencies that my senses no longer trouble to inform me of them.

that distant look characteristic of people who do not wish to be agreeable...

Which drew from Bloch nothing more instructive than "Sir, I am absolutely incapable of telling you whether it has rained. I live so resolutely apart from physical contingencies that my senses no longer trouble to inform me of them." "My

Attachment to an object always brings death to the possessor.

François Mitterrand is credited with saying that the most essential quality for any statesman is indifference

You don't even know where I'm going. I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.

The ants were busy on the ground, big black ones with shiny bodies and the little dusty quick ants. Kino watched with the detachment of God while a dusty ant frantically tried to escape the sand trap an ant lion had dug for him. He watched the ants moving, a little column of them near to his foot, and he put his foot in their path. Then the column climbed over his instep and continued on its way, and Kino left his foot there and watched them move over it.

They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.

Awright—take 'im." He did not look down at the dog at all. He lay back on his bunk and crossed his arms behind his head and stared at the ceiling. From

Kino watched with the detachment of God while a dusty ant frantically tried to escape the sand trap an ant lion had dug for him.

That sentence is: "Nothing is to be clung to as I, me, or mine." In other words, no attachments—especially to fixed ideas of yourself and who you are.

Nothing is to be clung to as I, me, or mine." In other words, no attachments—especially to fixed ideas of yourself and who you are.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.