Top 200 Detachment Quotes & Sayings

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.

Detachment is the beginning of mastery.

Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded firmly in the truth of what is.

A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

Some jobs required a certain level of detachment; a turning off of emotions in order to do the things that needed to be done.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times like a movie you’re walking through, more a spectator than a participant. There is above all a lack of empathy with most of mankind, a sense of detachment. But with detachment comes perspective. The less you care, the more you know, and the more you know the less you care.

The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results.

The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection of things, there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought.

Particularly on social media, there is that level of detachment, some people feel like they can say whatever pops in their head .

Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.

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

I tore my right shoulder to pieces - three external tears, a labrum tear, and a detachment of the bicep tendon.

Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.

Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue-don’t you realize that?

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

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

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self.

Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The answer must be positive - I must replace what I have with something better.

Joy only can be achieved through complete detachment, the detachment which is egoless and superegoless.

We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.

As a journalist, you want to try to maintain that objectivity and detachment.

Just a little detachment from the ego is needed.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.

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

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.

For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that happens when you look through the camera. You're looking for the shot.

Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be.

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

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

Detachment does not mean to neglect what Krishna gives you. Detachment means to do the needful as an offering to Krishna.

Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renunciation and detachment they are lovingly focused on the True One, they realize and understand themselves.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

The warrior knows that he is free to choose his desires, and he makes these decisions with courage, detachment, and - sometimes - with just a touch of madness.

In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

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

My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

Indifference looks like detachment, but it is not; indifference is simply no interest. Detachment is not absence of interest - detachment is absolute interest, tremendous interest, but still with the capacity of non-clinging. Enjoy the moment while it is there and when the moment starts disappearing, as everything is bound to disappear, let it go. That is detachment.

Detachment is the ultimate pleasure.

For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

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

The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.