Quotes About Detachment

Tis by no means the least of life's rules: To let things alone.

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.

I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there.

They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.

If attachment is an evil, we must look for its cause in the scandal of birth, for to be born is to be attached. Detachment then should apply itself to getting rid of the traces of this scandal, the most serious and intolerable.

Akhmatova, like Gogol, wanted to possess nothing. She gave away the presents given to her, and a few days later they would be found in other people's houses. This characteristic recalls the behavior of nomads, compelled to the provisional by necessity and by choice...When eastern Europe furnishes such models of detachment, why seek them out in India or elsewhere? (from Anathemas and Admirations)

Helen forgot people. They were husks that had enclosed her emotion.

Feeling nothing was now a badge of honour.

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

I got over my wave of giving a shit and then regained my senses.

I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

Maybe I shud've let Mave have u, she wrote. A good time to practise detachment, Jared thought. Separate the emotions from the conversation. Treat it like information, because that's all this was. Information.

It doesn't matter, because it just doesn't matter.

The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.

Civilization is tolerance, detachment and humor, or passion, anger, revenge; culture is the entrance examination, the gas chamber, the doctoral dissertation and the electric chair;

For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.

Let the dead bury their dead.

Sometimes the best way to hold onto something is to let it go.

Don't try to make them happy, you'll only get in trouble. Don't try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig.

The secret is to renounce nothing, cling to nothing, enjoy everything and allow it to pass, to flow.