Quotes About Detachment

The great thing about going to Malawi is I have no contact for at least a week with anything that's happening back in Washington.

After leaving 'Grey's,' I left 'Grey's' - like, let it go.

I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.

I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.

I'm not going to say I'm cool, because I don't really feel that. I just don't care at all, and I guess that's what people think is cool.

They did not weave their lives around yours. They had their own lives, which were mysterious to you.

our lives couldn't be viewed with detachment until they were half forgotten, like paintings which can be seen objectively only when the artists are long dead

I have never taken sides, never leaped wholeheartedly into one scale or the other; nor do I realize disappointments, provided they are severe, until the occasion is long past. Yet I am ruled by my emotions, though I murder them at birth.

The longer I observe the way people really act, the happier I am that I never pay attention to them.

If she comes, I'm not at home. If she wants anything, let her take it. If she asks for me, let her be informed that I am exceedingly old and I have totally forgotten her.

It's important in life if you don't give a shit. It can help you a lot.

I don't really identify with America. I don't really feel like an American or part of the American experience, and I don't really feel like a member of the human race, to tell you the truth. I know I am, but I really don't. All the definitions are there, but I don't really feel a part of it. I think I have found a detached point of view, an ideal emotional detachment from the American experience and culture…

There is no more to be said. Things cannot be altered, and who cares? It makes no difference to any one else what we do. We must try not to care ourselves. We must not give way. I dread giving way. Help me to he quiet.

I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I never would have imagined - and I look at them as if I'm the bartender in the corner of the room. They've never gone into my psyche. I look at them with distance, and wonder.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

The world calls for, and expects from us, simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility, detachment, and self-sacrifice. Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man.

To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God.

Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities - political, commercial, sociological, scientific - of the times in which I have lived.

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

I threw my TV out years ago.

Throw out the fun-killers that you carry about with yourselves all the time. Three of them are lust, greed, and hatred.

Throwing things out is one of the most difficult and important things you ever have to do.

Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.

I operate from a place of like water on a duck's back. When things are thrown at me or said to me that aren't worth my time, they don't register with me. Like it just rolls off my back.