Detachment Quotes

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

Detachment is the beginning of mastery.

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

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

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

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

The essence of the Way is detachment.

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

Detachment is the ultimate pleasure.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.

What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.

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.

Our detachments move us toward freedom and death.

Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.

Because I frequently encountered obstacles such as old, entrenched ideas, ongoing power struggles, or the lack of staff and money, I also learned to develop patience and detachment.

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

Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too.

Just a little detachment from the ego is needed.

The property of the estate owners (pomeshchiks) doesn't belong to any particular detachment, but to the people as a whole. Let the people take what they want.

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

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