Quotes About Detachment

I'm not involved, not involved, I repeated. It has been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action – even an opinion is a kind of action.

don't worry. I'm not shocked. I have no politics.

abstract himself out of the moment

want it, and that's why I'm going to Khaled and Idriss—because I don't feel sorry for any of it, and I don't regret a thing. I'm cold inside, Lin. I like people, and I like things, but I don't love any of them—not even myself—and I don't really care about them. And, you know, the strange thing is, I don't really wish that I did care.

The trick in life is to want nothing. And then work our way towards achieving that.

The trick in life is to want nothing. And then work our way towards achieving it.

I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.

When I got out of baseball, I got all the way out. I might watch a World Series game or something.

The worldly stuff is not always going to be there and it could be taken away at any moment.

I'm not even worried about the Internet; that ain't even my thing. I'm not even an Internet guy. You rarely even see me into that.

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

I have learned to not worry about things I can't control.

I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.

There's no point in worrying about things you can't influence.

With situations that you have no power over, there is no point in worrying about one thing or another. Why think about things that you can't control?

My social media world is detached from my friendship world. I'll have friends in real life that I don't follow on social media, because I don't really look at social media as the way of connecting to friends. For me, social media is like a business tool.

As a writer, it's a great narrative tool to have that character who is slightly detached but at the same time observant of his reality, because I think that's pretty much what being a writer is - being there, watching and internalizing.

You have to be able to toss the thing out. You can't fall in love with your characters, and you have to know when to fight - and when to quit.

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.

I am totally unattached to material items.

the Buddhist philosophy means by "letting go of attachment." It's similar to the Christian concept, "God's will be done.

If you don't want to keep him, then pretend he's a book. Enjoy him for two weeks, then return him

Algunos me detestan, ¿por qué regocijarme cuando otros me elogian? Otros me ensalzan, ¿por qué deprimirme cuando otros me desprecian? Los seres sensibles tienen diversas preferencias, ni siquiera los vencedores podrían satisfacerlos a todos, ¿cómo podría hacerlo yo que no tengo la sabiduría? Por tanto, ¿a qué preocuparme por las opiniones de la gente?.