Detachment Quotes

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

Needs, Pure, Serene

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

Pain, Hatred, Present

The essence of the Way is detachment.
Bodhidharma

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.
Bede Griffiths

Men, Freedom, Self

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.
James Dickey

Mind, Feeling, Human

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
John le Carre

Experience, Wise, Parents

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

Feelings, Himself, Ability

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

Gather, Genetic, Cherished

What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.
Satyajit Ray

Someone, Film, Both

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.
Salvatore Quasimodo

Life, Dreams, Acceptance

I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.
Ed Westwick

Life, Family, Famous

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.
John Desmond Bernal

Science, Important, Social

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.
Sam Snead

Yourself, Put, Between

All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
Adam Gopnik

Life, Enough, Secret

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.
Edward St Aubyn

Control, Seeing, Interests

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