Quotes About Detachment

Thank God. You are now a little bit lighter, you are a little bit more you. 'Cause if you can lose it—a car, an idea, a belief, a woman—it wasn't yours.

It's not that I hate people. I'm just indifferent to them—or rather, they disgust me; and they'd better keep out of my way, or I'll run them down.

You must learn to wait properly... By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind you so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a purposeless tension

the Master's warning that we should not practice anything except self-detaching immersion.

only the truly detached can understand what is meant by "detachment"

And I took a seat in the grandstand of philosophical detachment to fall asleep observing the cannibals do their death dance.

The worst thing you can be in this job is partial, invested. You just have to get good at turning that off. You have to see the bodies as bodies, not as people. They were people once, of course, fuelled by food and water, driven by electrical impulses. But then, for whatever reason, the power got turned off. The lights went out. They were transformed into meat.

I don't even like most people.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, a mere heart of stone. —Charles Darwin

This is the usual way in which the State Department, without taking the least responsibility for the outcome, makes comments of an entirely unhelpful character in a spirit of complete detachment.'82

The breadth of Churchill's hinterland – his many and varied interests beyond politics – meant that he could regard politics with more detachment than most professional politicians, and thus not make the compromises others did in order to gain, or remain in, office.

She gave me more than just a sweater vest that night. She gave me all this. Nothing. She gave me nothing. That's what I need. No phone book, no Game Boy, no pasta maker, TV Guide. Nowhere to go, nothing to do.

Adders never interfered in other beings' affairs, as long as it didn't affect them directly. In their view, everyone has the right to live their lives just as foolishly as they like.

Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all.

Czarnow?osy, chudy i smag?y, wygl?da? na Cygana albo na kogo?, kto znalaz? si? tutaj przypadkiem. On zawsze wygl?da? tak, jakby si? przysiad?, bo akurat by?o wolne miejsce. My?la?, kpi?, nudzi? si? na w?asny rachunek.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

Nothing about him reminded me of humanity.

Four Rules For Life: Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results.

My mistake was to lie in his arms moist-eyed with tenderness and gratitude, when the correct stance would have been a certain detachment, an irony, as if to imply that he would have to love me to a much higher standard to convince me that I had to take him seriously. I should have found such a tactic odious, but now I see that it is sometimes necessary to meet withdrawal with withdrawal, dismissal with dismissal.

There must be some compensation for being an onlooker,' said Beatrice. 'The role is not always an enviable one.

There's nothing colder than chemistry.

only role. There wasn't any warmth there. If another woman showed him

I have no goals or ambitions whatsoever.