Detachment Quotes

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

Detachment is the beginning of mastery.

How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?

Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!

Detachment is the ultimate pleasure.

detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.

...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.

Wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every given point in space.

The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.

She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.