Quotes About Detachment

People are far too wrapped up in their own lives to care about what's happening to other people. Even if it is a moment's hot gossip, it's only that - a moment.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?

She lived and breathed, Brrr knew, with a high tolerance for detachment - like a lake jellyfish floating in a glass casket, oblivious of japing crowds.

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

Having no intercourse with anyone, she lived in the torpid state of a sleep-walker.

But vilifying those we love always detaches us from them a little. We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.

What vast funds of indifference society possesses

J'ai toujours tâché de vivre dans une tour d'ivoire; mais une marée de merde en bat les murs

She now felt an incessant and universal numbness.

Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization's sadnesses.

Mais, à mesure que se serrait davantage l'intimité de leur vie, un détachement se faisait qui la déliait de lui.

Pero la denigración de las personas a quienes amamos siempre nos aleja de ellas un poco. No hay que tocar a los ídolos; su dorado se nos queda en las manos.

Essayez donc de vous dégager de tout ce qui vous enferme, faites cet effort surhumain de sortir vivant de votre corps, de vos intérêts, de vos pensées et de l'humanité tout entière, pour regarder ailleurs, et vous comprendrez combien ont peu d'importance les querelles des romantiques et des naturalistes, et la discussion du budget. »

Death need not be sad, it should be a matter of indifference.

The images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream in which the unity of that life can no longer be recovered. Fragmented views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as a separate pseudoworld that can only be looked at. The specialization of images of the world evolves into a world of autonomized images where even the deceivers are deceived. The spectacle is a concrete inversion of life, an autonomous movement of the nonliving.

The fact that the practical power of modern society has detached itself from that society and established an independent realm in the spectacle can be explained only by the additional fact that that powerful practice continued to lack cohesion and had remained in contradiction with itself.

Geride b?rakmak için, önce baÄŸlan?p kalman?n art?k iÅŸe yaramad???n? kavramam?z gerekir

Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. DON MIGUEL RUIZ, THE FOUR AGREEMENTS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PERSONAL FREEDOM

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

I have said that I dwelt apart from the visible world, but I have not said that I dwelt alone.

In seinem Verhalten schien eine kryptische, sardonische Arroganz zu lauern, als ödeten ihn alle menschlichen Wesen nur noch an.

alone, said the mother, he is

Life had stopped for her a long time ago. She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in her life and no concept of the fact that she could be wrong. She delivered her care of her insane patients in a killing manner, but she was convinced she was right.