Detached Quotes

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.
Deepak Chopra

Yourself, Spiritual, Others

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

Great, Someone, Reality

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.
Bono

Strong, Real, Dream

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
Camille Paglia

Why, Become, Poor

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
Ralph Fiennes

Power, Him, Find

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.
Prem Rawat

Life, Down, Difficult

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.
Pete Townshend

Off, Whatever, Until

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
Joseph Conrad

Love, Feelings, Impossible

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

Difficult, Writer, Grief

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
Mao Zedong

Politics, Art, Whole

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

Cool, Tolerance, Admit

It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find it alarming that no one questions it.
Emma Watson

Amazing, Made, Find

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.
Ralph Fiennes

Read, Stuff, Head

Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.
Iain Duncan Smith

Said, Whole, Word

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind.
Charles Bronson

Pain, Mind, Someone

Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country.
Grover Norquist

Country, Guy, Party

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

View, Window, Observer

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.
Alex Kapranos

Good, Alone, Quite

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
Carla Gugino

Women, Men, Strong

What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached.
Charles Bronson

Pain, Help, Her

I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
Gavin DeGraw

Live, Sometimes, Place

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.
Johannes Stark

Experience, Through, Second

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

Mind, Hold, Subject

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
Val Kilmer

Before, Psychology, Understood

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.
Raymond Queneau

Point, Story, Side

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.
Mark Edwards

Music, Pretty, Though

A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing.
Ty Burrell

Funny, Keep, Difficult

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