Quotes About Detachment

I can't be bothered with reality shows; I'd rather go and look through someone's letter box.

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope.

I am such a reclusive person that, literally, when I am done shooting, at some level I sort of disassociate myself, and I get back to reading my books.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out.

There's no hate lost between us.

Slipknot's the kind of band you need to step away from and kind of take a break from and let it heal, so to speak.

I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.

It's healthier if you kind of just walk away from things and not really care about what happens.

I don't take the roles home with me. I don't work that way. I don't understand that; I mean, I really don't when I hear that.

My idea of hell is a girlfriend ringing up and saying, 'Let's go shopping and have cocktails.' I'd rather play cards.

Besides, I have seen people becoming helpless when they lose their mobiles. It's actually worse than drug addiction.

When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!

Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.

you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.

One knew that it was all rubbish, so why let oneself be worried by it?

That thing in my box? he said. Has nothing to do with me.

Is it not strange how quickly one can become detached from everything? How empty life appears when one is close to death!

But one thing is certain: the process of freedom is one of subtraction—we are left more empty than when we began.

Liberation, whether experienced pleasurably or painfully, always involves relinquishment, some kind of loss.

Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.