Quotes About Detached

senses could be dulled, and you might withdraw into yourself, feeling numb and empty.

His face showed neither pleasure nor excitement.

I've truly tried to be apolitical.

He was an observer of what was happening rather than a participant. There could be neither enjoyment or disgust, only awareness.

I belong to no party, and I am militant for no one.

In a certain sense, these people have a better appreciation of the Church and of Catholicism than many Catholics have: an appreciation which is detached and intellectual and objective. But they never come into the Church. They stand and starve in the doors of the banquet -- the banquet to which they surely realize that they are invited -- while those more poor, more stupid, less gifted, less educated, sometimes even less virtuous than they, enter in and are filled at those tremendous tables.

Language has shaped our expectations so extensively that real reality has become the most detached and incomprehensible one of all.

I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.

The events of the eschatological consummation are not merely detached events lying in the future about which Paul speculates. They are rather redemptive events that have already begun to unfold within history.

How can one discover what he feels? I thought he might perhaps behave — quite differently with you? No, no. We seem to know each other well but I think that's just because I parade my feelings. He's affectionate, detached, passive, absolutely passive. He's never told you about that place? He's never talked about himself at all.

The man had all the warmth, all the friendliness, of a pinecone.

I'm Switzerland; neutral as can be, and also with great chocolate.

The image a lot of people have of me as detached, impassive, or remote is a persona that comes from years of being teased for every feeling I ever expressed.

For the West, even as it nominally ceases to be Christian, and most obviously in those areas which have, at least nominally, drifted furthest from Christianity, still has many of the basic Christian traits of love, humility, social concern, humanitarianism, brotherly care, and future preference, however detached these traits may have become from the Christian idea of deity or of individual salvation in a spiritual eternity. T&H p. 1120

Even sin, once the will is detached and no longer nourishes it, withers and dies sterile. It is in the secret of intentions, like in a decomposing humus, in the dark forest of future sins, unpardoned sins, half dead, half living, that new poisons are distilled.

The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country.

Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.

The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick on to anything, is completely detached and emitting joy to us.

But the overruling disconcertingness was to find himself unconcerned. It was as if some mysterious oil had been introduced into the workings of his mind. If a thought irked him, he thought of something else. If a project miscarried, a flooding serenity swept him beyond it. He lived a tranquil truant, dissociated from himself as though by a slight agreeable fever.

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.