Detached Quotes

Detached Quote of the day

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

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

We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.

To love God as He ought to be loved, we must be detached from all temporal love. We must love nothing but Him, or if we love anything else, we must love it only for His sake.

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

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

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

Weight every purpose in the light of eternity. A trivial pursuit is that which is out side the will of God & detached from the glory of God.

There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached.

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.

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

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

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

As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers?

One ought to be mixed up with the world and to be able to wash one's hands of it - to be part of the world and also outside it. One [needs] to be both involved and detached at the same time.

I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person

You can get so well educated in America that your thoughts become detached from common sense. You can get so complicated in your thinking that the obvious isn't real to you anymore.

Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

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

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

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.

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

Noise is manufactured in the city, just as goods are manufactured. The city is the place where noise is kept in stock, completely detached from the object from which it came.

We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.

I had the idea to become really emotionally detached, and a lot of the time I've treated people that I've cared about a lot really unfairly.

In order to travel far you have to be detached.

The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick on to anything, is completely detached and emitting joy to us.

The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.

I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great empathy for your subjects.

Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.

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.

The real meaning of detached love is to let others exist without forcing our will upon them. That is spiritual love.

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.

Surrendering means cleansing yourself completely, getting completely detached. Detachment is the only way you can rise.

Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.

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

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

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.

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.

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

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

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.

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

Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.

True realism, materialist realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

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

I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.