Quotes About Detachment

Ik heb nooit meer van het leven verlangd dan dat dat niets van mij zou eisen.

Ever since I was a child, the intrinsic futility of all forms of action has been a cherished touchstone for my detachment from everything, including me.

Dormimos ali acordados dias, contentes de não ser nada, de não ter desejos nem esperanças, de nos termos esquecido da cor dos amores e do sabor dos ódios.

I'M HELD by nothing, I hold on to nothing, I belong to nothing.

the chance circumstances of his life and the direction it had taken were dictated by his instincts, in his case inertia and detachment.

Why should I care that no one reads what I write? I write to forget about life, and I publish because that's one of the rules of the game.

A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento.

Never to feel one's feelings wholeheartedly and then to elevate that wan victory to the point of being able to regard one's own ambitions, longings and desires with indifference; to pass by one's joys and griefs as one would a person in whom one feels no interest.

The world belongs to the unfeeling. The essential condition for being a practical man is the absence of any sensitivity

All day Joy sat on her neck in a deep chair, reading. Sometimes she went for walks but she didn't like dogs or cats or birds or flowers or nature or nice young men. She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.

A los ídolos es mejor no tocarlos porque algo de la pintura dorada que los recubría se nos queda siempre entre las manos

Everything else outside me seems far, far away.

Television does not fascinate me.

I'm not involved with the female world.

If people like what I do, fine. If they don't, fine.

When you finish a film, you never want to see it again.

When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.

I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.

Once I finish a film, I don't ever see it again. Never ever. I have never seen any of my films since I finished them.

I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Whatever happens, who cares.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

Many photographers get involved with the people whom they take pictures of; others prefer being observers, keeping a certain distance.