Quotes About Detachment

Just because some people are fueled by drama doesn't mean you have to attend the performance.

Freedom discovers you the moment you lose concern of what impression you're making or about to make.

My earphones are what set me free from all the bullsh...

Being Free Means Being Lonely.

Why is it that people who are absorbed by something are seen as sad? I can't explain it, but for me it reverses the true state of affairs. To be engaged is to be a part, to be absorbed and fulfilled. To be cool, to be detached from things and to have no passionate feelings is the real sadness. At the heart of depression, that quintessentially modern malaise, is a deep sense of separation from the rest of life.

objective perspective

And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head.

Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so—just walk out from under the webs we've spun, the tasks we've assumed, the problems we have to solve. They'll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up.

The whole point of American journalism has always been detachment from authority so that critical analysis is possible.

Somehow I enjoy watching people suffer.

Any misfortune that happens to another person is funny. If it happens to someone else and not me, it's very funny.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.

Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

And again, Subhuti, suppose a woman or a man were to renounce all their belongings as many times as there are grains of sand in the river Ganges ; and suppose that someone else, after taking from this discourse on dharma but one stanza of four lines.

If anyone asks, I'll tell them we both just moved on. When people all stare, I'll pretend that I don't hear them talk

Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

Depersonalization—Detachment from one's self, e.g., a sense of looking at one's self as if one is an outsider.

Is true, you do feel better about things the further you run from it

Acceptance is the freedom from needing your cravings satisfied.

I try to avoid asking humans if there's anything wrong with them. (Mostly because I don't care.)

I'm a murderbot, I don't give a crap about boats.