Quotes About Detachment

I hated the soup and felt little for the can.

Nothing bothered me, not even the things that bothered me.

I had to keep swatting flies away, but that didn't bother me. Nothing bothered me, not even the things that bothered me.

you can survive only if nothing is necessary to you

Even before his death he had been absent, and long ago the people closest to him had learned to accept this absence, to treat it as the fundamental quality of his being.

I gave up trying to be anyone," he said. "The object of my life was to remove myself from my surroundings, to live in a place where nothing could hurt me anymore. One by one, I tried to abandon my attachments, to let go of all the things I ever cared about. The idea was to achieve indifference, an indifference so powerful and sublime that it would protect me from further assault.

Not by adding more information, or more learning, or more study, can we now enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but rather by letting go, by ceasing this continual mental movement, and finding out what lies behind the movement.

Without emotional independence, I can't have emotional sobriety.

Detachment is neither kind nor unkind. It does not imply judgment or condemnation of the person or situation from which I am detaching. It is simply a means that allows us to separate ourselves from the adverse effects that another person's alcoholism [substitute "BPD behavior"] has upon our lives.

Memorize the three Cs and the three Gs: I didn't cause it. I can't control it. I can't cure it. get off their back. get out of the way. get on with your own life.

detach with love Some family members practice detaching with love, a concept promoted by Al-Anon,

You have made yourself an island of time, you are a time that has become detached from that vast Time in which your indefinite duration has the subsistence and eternity of a smoke-ring.

Sometimes he though her coolness not so much a cover as the thing itself, an emptiness

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

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.

I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.

Freeze types sometimes have or appear to have Attention Deficit Disorder [ADD]. They often master the art of changing the internal channel whenever inner experience becomes uncomfortable. When they are especially traumatized or triggered, they may exhibit a schizoid-like detachment from ordinary reality.

To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone.

Violating the boundaries between life and art to make their material their own was a dangerous way for these filmmakers to work. It was successful for a while, enriching both the life and the art, but as the two became more extravagant and interchangeable, New Hollywood directors lost the detachment of artists, and their lives and art sank into quicksand, joined in a fatal embrace.

Acting on what matters means that we will consistently find ourselves feeling like we are living on the margin of our institutions and our culture. This calls for some detachment from the mainstream.

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.

When people are going to be taken from you anyway, then it would be better if you had never come to care for them.

He sees me through the glass. We both nod like we give a small shit about each other.

and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,