Quotes About Detachment

I don't give a damn about you now, but it was a new experience for me and I felt a little dizzy for a while.

My own rule is to let everything alone.

Please do not have a band, as I do not care for music.

And for the first time in four months aroused his old version and horror towards all the business of life. The room had grown smothery. He wanted to be out in some cool and bitter breeze, miles above the cities, and to live serene and detached back in the corners of his mind.

How arrogant you are To think your wretched Self so singular! The disappointments of this world will die In less time than the blinking of an eye, And as the earth must pass, pass by the earth Don't even glance at it, know what it's worth; What empty foolishness it is to care For what must one day be dispersed to air!

Deshacerme de libros que he amado (la Biblia principalmente por razones literarias) habría supuesto no hace mucho un sufrimiento insoportable para mí, como si me arrancaran las costillas de una en una sin anestesia.

Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day.

Pouco me importa. Pouco me importa o quê? Não sei: pouco me importa.

To possess something is to lose it. To feel something without possessing it is to keep it, because in that way one extracts its essence.

I'll disappear in the fog as a foreigner to all life, as a human island detached from the dream of the sea, as a uselessly existing ship that floats on the surface of everything.

All I ever asked of life was that it should pass me by without my even noticing it.

I'll disappear in the fog as a foreigner to all life, as a human island detached from the dream of the sea

Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can't live alone, you were born a slave. - The Book of Disquiet

Desapegar-se, é renovar votos de esperança de si mesmo, É dar-se uma nova oportunidade de construir uma nova história melhor. Liberte-se de tudo aquilo que não tem te feito bem, daquilo que já não tem nenhum valor, e siga, siga novos rumos, desvende novos mundos.

Seeing the immanent futility of all forms of action was, from childhood on, one of my favorite means of detaching myself even from myself.

If Fate decrees it should happen, so be it. I feel curious about emotions. About facts, whatever they might be, I feel no curiosity whatsoever.

Feliz, finalmente, quien renuncia a todo, y a quien, por renunciar a todo, nada le puede ser quitado o reducido.

Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can't live alone, you were born a slave.

Estou hoje vencido, como se soubesse a verdade. Estou hoje lúcido, como se estivesse para morrer, E não tivesse mais irmandade com as coisas

Renunciation is freedom. Not wanting is power.

Other people are no more for us than scenery, generally the invisible scenery of a street we know by heart.

Disdain everything, but in such a way that your disdain doesn't disturb you. Don't think you're superior because you disdain. This is the key to the art of noble disdain.

I was free from having to feel. It was in a certain sense home – the place, that is, where one doesn't feel.

Happy the man, then, who renounces everything and from whom, therefore, nothing can be taken or subtracted.