Quotes About Detachment

Pointing out people's mistakes, having intention to take advantage of people, keeps one bound to a worldly life (sansaar).

The worldly life runs easily due to the egoism which is the by-production of the worldly life. By increasing the egoism there, one has incurred endless worries.

Life is a battle of balance.Balance between attachment and detachment. Attach yourself enough, to feel the "Pain in others".Detach yourself enough, not to feel the "Paininflicted by others".

You have to let go of what is holding you back.

There are rules which are meant to break. There are roads not to be followed.There are memories meant to leave.There are so many things we should not care about.

...Life is much simpler if you don't notice anything....

Ties are straightened and expressions banished.

Sooner or later we're all gone, so no one bothers getting attached.

I didn't want to die, but I wanted to take my brain out of my head for a while.

Most people in the world don't know who the Apleys are and they don't give a damn. I don't intend this as rudeness, but as a sort of comfort. I know it has been a comfort to me sometimes. Just remember that most people don't give a damn. When you remember it, you won't feel the necessity of taking the Apleys so seriously.

Don't trouble yourself with matters you truly cannot change.

Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.

Se me ocurrió la idea de dejarlo ir todo, y lo hice. Dejé de programar citas de negocios y renuncié a intentar que la gente hiciera lo que yo quería.

No, no! Youre not supposed to care!

It] was approached from a distance and gingerly, held at arm's length by outsiders who clearly lacked any sense of fondness for or participation in the forms they were studying.

I wish you could go through life without ever caring about anything, without ever getting attached to people and dreams and inaccessible places. It just makes you sad when you can never go back.

if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.

Don't hold onto things, it will only bring you pain.

Riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away.

Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That's what most of my characters are like.

To conquer the world must man renounce the world?

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even "realities"; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a "solitary elephant.