Quotes About Detached

I think as I look at the foamy white clouds How wonderful it would be to live among them And to have their protecting films as shelter To float along through eternity, Never to have the stress and turmoil of the earth disrupt my life. Always to be detached from the earth's pulling forces Just to be alone with the elements. The elements--the one thing human minds can't control Always moving as they like.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.

As the smallest drop of water detached from the ocean contains all the qualities of the ocean, so man, detached in consciousness from the Infinite, contains within him its likeness; and as the drop of water must, by the law of its nature, ultimately find its way back to the ocean and lose itself in its silent depths, so must man, by the unfailing law of his nature, at last return to his source, and lose himself in the great ocean of the Infinite.

Ah, Anjin-san, that's because you're thinking in your own language. To understand Japanese you have to think Japanese. Don't forget our language is the language of the infinite. It's all so simple, Anjin-san. Just change your concept of the world. Japanese is just learning a new art, detached from the world Ã¢â'¬Â¦ It's all so simple.

Well, I'm not a big sports fan.

I'm not much of a sports fan.

Our only valid criteria for judgment are the virtues in the soul who is serving God. Is she humble, detached from personal desires, and is her conscience pure? If so, she is holy.

I don't lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it.

When even the scrupulously detached BBC is exhorting us to talk to God, you know something is going on.

Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.

It's not that I'm some detached lab animal just conditioned to ignore violence, but my first instinct is maybe it's not too late to dab club soda on the bloodstain.

Him yelling, Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.

But now it's like I'm not really here. I'm just a witness, wayward and alone.

Never rude, always aloof.

In order to bask in that magic a wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle even though we must keep a little aloof, a little detached when reading. Then with a pleasure which is both sensual and intellectual we shall watch the artist build his castle of cards and watch the castle of cards become a castle of beautiful steel and glass.

I felt curiously aloof from my own self.

She combined a cool forwardness -the overflow of what I think is called "poise"- with a shyness and sadness that caused her detached way of selecting her words to seem as unnatural as the intonation of a professor of "speech.

He'd somehow lived a detached life, more Like a spectator than a participant in his own existence.

Sometimes he seems like a droid--or a drone. Fang of Nine. Fang2-D2.

I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice.

You can say I give you this information as a dispassionate observer.

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.