Quotes About Detached

and it was said that the soldiers "all had the same expression because they had no expression at all.

The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.

It was the calm of the observer, the uninvolved observer, separated from the events, knowing of them but not essentially involved.

Leslie Ford, looking at him, thought that he had the face of a genius Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the remote, detached look of a soul from another star. Earth was not his habitat.

It's nothing personal, the universe might say.

The aim is to get as close to nature as possible, shattering the tyranny of cultural values and judgements. In the Vedic approach, self-realization has to be achieved by detached adherence to cultural values and judgements, social roles

In other words, art is a realm entirely separated from the interests of real life-a refuge for detached and gifted souls from sordid political and economic struggles.

I must be cool and breezy and nonchalant now. Tears would ruin that.

the very picture of nonchalance.

In him, too, was despair from the sorrow that soldiers turn to hatred in order that they may continue to be soldiers. Now it was over he was lonely, detached and unelated and he hated every one he saw.

the fish's eye looked as detached as the mirrors in a periscope or as a saint in a procession.

The anger and the emptiness and the hate that had come with the let-down after the bridge, when he had looked up from where he had lain and crouching, seen Anselmo dead, were still all through him. In him, too, was despair from the sorrow that soldiers turn to hatred in order that they may continue to be soldiers. Now it was over he was lonely, detached and unrelated and he hated every one he saw.

I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof

I'm a private person and hate making friends.

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

He is so solemn, detached, and uninvolved he makes Mr. Spock look like Hunter S. Thompson at closing time.

As a disinterested third

The sensation that allows you to experience the physical reality, when detached from the physical body allows you to realize life beyond the physical reality.

I am a Piscean, and they have a lovingly detached attitude towards life.

At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached.

What happens when we accept that style, mediated through yet detached from a racial referent, may not be simply the excess or the opposite of ontology but may in fact be a precondition for embodiment, an insight that challenges the very foundation of the category of the human? What is at stake here is not just the objectification of people but also how that objectification opens up a constitutive estrangement within the articulation of proper personhood.

Professionally and personally, I try to be as agnostic as possible, try to see things as objectively as possible.

A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone.

Let's put it this way, Mrs. Threadgoode said kindly. She's of this world, but not in it.