Quotes About Detachment

I asked myself, again and again: 'What does it mean? What does it mean?' And you know, I finally found the answer; one answer, anyhow. It dont mean a thing. Nothing. Why should it mean anything? I stopped thinking about it is what I finally did. It's what you better do, too. Dont think about it.

That's what happens when people die. Time freezes around them. If you stand too close, you get caught, like a fly trapped in amber. It takes a certain amount of strength to pull away and leave it behind.

For the record, we're not friends. (Stryker) For the record, I don't care. (Savitar)

You're not worth the salt in my tears or the brain power it would take me to even conjure your face. (Aiden)

That's what I wanted for myself for even just a little while-to be unaware of the rest of the world. I needed some time.

I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.

Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.

Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse form. Don't be concerned one way or the other.

I don't cry in real life. I'm just pretty light and I don't get too heavy.

The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is not the sole goal.

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

Don't get attached to anything.

In fact, there's an entire universe out there that's pretty much indifferent to struggles that big, no matter how serious they've been in your life.

Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not seeing.

Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.

I can't believe the ignorance there, so I don't allow it to affect my life, I don't allow it to come into my zone, and it's not in my world, really.

I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you'll never see me there. I'm never at parties.

My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting.

People will think what they want to...Never take too much notice of it.

There was nothing he could do about it, so there was no point worrying about it.

here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ...

My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.

liberosis n. the desire to care less about things—to loosen your grip on your life, to stop glancing behind you every few steps, afraid that someone will snatch it from you before you reach the end zone—rather to hold your life loosely and playfully, like a volleyball, keeping it in the air, with only quick fleeting interventions, bouncing freely in the hands of trusted friends, always in play.

In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn't be solved by being ignored.