Quotes About Detachment

Augusten very distant tonight. Probably because of my games.

Toohey: Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us. Roark: But I don't think of you.

Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.

She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart

I don't want to fight for the people, I don't want to fight against the people, I don't want to hear of the people. I want to be left alone—to live.

She felt a bored indifference toward the immediate world around her...She took it as a regrettable accident, to be borne patiently for a while, that she happened to be imprisoned among people who were dull.

now, be happy. But I'm not. I feel nothing. When I 'm honest with myself, I know that the only emotion I've felt in years is being tired. Not physically tired. Just tired. It's as if…as if there were nobody there to feel any more. But that's not all. There's something much worse. It's doing something horrible to me. I'm beginning to hate people…

What are you really seeking?' 'Freedom – to want nothing, to expect nothing, to depend on nothing.

The crowd had stared at him and given up angrily, finding no satisfaction. He did not look crushed and he did not look defiant. He looked impersonal and calm. He was not like a public figure in a public place; he was like a man alone in his own room, listening to the radio.

To be free, a man must be free from his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

He looked on them with the same amused detachment as Einstein, in the waning years of his life, must have felt watching children at play in a sandbox.

Cynicism, loss of spiritual values, two world wars, the communist disillusionment, psychoanalysis, have forced the 20th century writer to keep his hero uninvolved, detached, burdened with problems relating to life.... If the modern world could be summed up with a single word, it would be 'absurd.' The only truly creative response to this is the comic version of life.

It's much easier not to know things sometimes.

8. And finally, of course, the very central teaching of the Gita: "Let go of the outcome." Let go of any clinging to how this all comes out. You cannot measure your actions at this point by the conventional wisdom about success and failure.

One man asked another on the death of a mutual friend, How much did he leave? His friend responded, He left it all.

all clues, ideally, should be met with delight and detachment, rather than euphoria or, worse, disdain and despair.

Do I know what people say? Sure. I shrug it off. what else can you do? Stop people from talking? You might as well try to stop the wind from blowing.

Move forward not back. The people, places and things that brought you down only need you to bring you lower. STAY AWAY!

For a Comfortable Journey of Life, Just Reduce the Luggage of Desires.

Do not be so attached to life otherwise you will end up struggling for life. Choice is yours.

If you really love something, you have to know how to let go.

Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love

Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains.

Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.