Top 321 Detached Quotes & Sayings

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

There's an innocence to Ozzy Osbourne. He's mingling, but he's somewhat detached.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

Unless and until you are detached, you cannot ascend.

If the Buddhist's job is to be detached, I think that the artist's job is to be both detached and attached.

I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy.

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.

It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work.

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

Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.

In order to settle down in the quiet of our own being we must learn to be detached from the results of our own activity. We must be content to live without watching ourselves live, to work with expecting immediate reward, to love without an instant satisfaction, and to exist without any special recognition. It is only when we are detached from ourselves that we can be at peace with ourselves.

This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

The detached observer's view is one window on the world.

I wanna say I'm detached, but I'm an Aquarius that's sensitive as hell. That's dope, though.

Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.

'Lonerism' is such an insular, detached album.

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective.

People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch.

What is said in James 2:14 ff. is like a two-coupon train or bus ticket. One coupon says, "Not good if detached" and the other says, "Not good for passage". Works are not good for passage; but faith detached from works is not saving faith.

When western culture developed, we became detached from nature, detached from our relationship with the animals. We saw animals perhaps as only the rhino horn, the elephant's tusk, we saw it as making money.

Primo Levi's - I mean, he's a very different kind of writer. He's a much more formal writer. He's a much more -almost detached. I mean, I wouldn't really say that he's detached ultimately. But he does write as a scientist, and so he describes things very - in great detail, very carefully.

I'm sure everyone has a cool story behind how they got into Formula One, but, for me, Perth, you know, not only in Australia is it detached, but it's detached from the whole world.

I grew up in a single-family detached house. My parents are wonderful.

Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.

I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.

A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information.

Failure doesn't scare me. And neither success. I am equally detached to both.

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

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

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

The goal is to make the music really a part of the skin of the film, and not be detached.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.

I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life.

For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

I hate this idea that I've somehow become detached. It's like I can't win. I'd been hearing all these years that I was too hands-on: that I was the guy writing out the lineup card. Now, I'm not present enough. How is it possible to be a detached micromanager?

I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.

You will never be able to have perfect interior peace and recollection unless you are detached even from the desire of peace and recollection. You will never be able to pray perfectly until you are detached from the pleasures of prayer.

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

And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.

Legal arguments, particularly when they reach the highest court in the land, can be detached from daily life.

I ain't never detached myself from Gary.

Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

Of all the views that are detached from reality, the most delusional is that Christians are persecuted in the U.S.

I like to be in that space, the same middle-class man. Otherwise, you become completely detached from reality.

Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.

In order to travel far you have to be detached.

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

Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.

Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.