Quotes About Detached

She goes through this world as of nothing touches her, as if no one can reach her, as though she's focused on something bigger and better and more important that she's not going to tell you a single thing about. It charms them.

t was as if her mind was slowly dividing into two parts. One part of her was leading the boys around the planet to battle the Vespers, in a constant state of adrenaline-fueled anxiety, tension, and desperation. The other part was like a spectator, or a passenger maybe, detached, uninvolved- and uncaring. That part of her had begun to feel like a safe place.

had been attracted by Josie's slight weirdness: the denim, the old husband, the clipped, detached way in which she spoke. It would be easy to assume that all her weirdness was a result of having spent her childhood with a narcissistic mother and her adult life with a man like Walter. But what if the weirdness was innate?

If the isolation that accompanies blindness compels me to a deeper connection with God, I am the richer. All of us need to treasure anything within us that makes us feel just a little detached from the greater arena of human experience, for it may be the one thing that God mercifully gives us to tie us to Himself and fill our need to be known by Him.

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Other people's houses always intrigued her by the contrast they offered to Greystones; she would see suddenly -- with detached interest and quite without envy or criticism -- the extent to which other people's preoccupations differed from her own.

Always the fear of consequences. Always this terrible inertia. What he was about to do to his father was so huge, so colossal, that the consequences were inconceivable - he couldn't imagine a moment occurring after that act. Only blankness. Nothingness. Something like the end of the world. And facing the end of the world, or even just the end of the year, had always given Josh a strangely detached feeling.

Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.

Nothing amazes me anymore.

I'm apolitical.

I have been apolitical all my life.

I kind of became apolitical.

The Japanese have an expression for human relations that are sticky with the mutual obligations and dependencies of the collective life. They use the English word "wet." Traditional Japanese family relations are "wet." Yakuza gangs are "wet." Behavior that is more detached, more individualistic, often associated with a Western way of life, is "dry." Terayama Shuji was "dry." Kara was most definitely "wet.

the biblical story does not encourage anyone to feel detached from, or somehow superior to, this world of space and time and matter.

psychopaths aren't necessarily monsters. They're just...unemotional. Detached. Able to become such great surgeons, CEOs, lawyers...even profilers for the FBI...

never hesitated. I mean, I always suspected I was a bit of a psychopath, but as we all know...psychopaths aren't necessarily monsters. They're just...unemotional. Detached. Able to become such great surgeons, CEOs, lawyers...even profilers for the FBI...

Being of no party, I shall offend all parties

Sorry if I looked interested. I'm not.

Everything about me is strickly business. Nothing personal just being independent its just how I handle sh...

The unsurrogated narrator has the monumental task of transforming low-level self-interest into the kind of detached empathy required of a piece of writing that is to be of value to the disinterested reader.

We don't care if you understand us.

I'm not emotional.

What's definitive is always calm, because it is detached from time.

But for its designation the mind is empty and nonconceptual, which means Mah?mudr?. It is empty from the beginning, like space. The essence of mind is unborn [emptiness] and is detached from any substantive reality. Like space, it is all-pervasive. Neither transferring nor transforming, it has always been empty and selfless from the very beginning.