Top 100 Quotes About Detached
#1. 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?
Loren Eiseley
#2. Past and future monopolize the poet's sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.
Andre Breton
#3. 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
#4. Lily Houghton-Miller stood in the middle of my living room and surveyed me with the detached interest of a scientist gazing at a new variety of manure-based invertebrate.
Jojo Moyes
#5. Him yelling, Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.
Anonymous
#6. 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.
John Petrucci
#7. Remain in the world, act in the world, do whatsoever is needful, and yet remain transcendental, aloof, detached, a lotus flower in the pond.
Osho
#8. She has grown up, another decides, as if responding to the injustice of racism is childish and her previous demonstration of emotion was free-floating and detached from any external actions by others.
Claudia Rankine
#9. A room - full of detached feet - like hundreds of them. Maybe thousands! And I saw the king in there. He was having an orgy with them. It was the most horrible thing I've ever seen. Like a bunch of insects crawling all over his naked body. Except they weren't insects.
Colleen Chen
#10. He was determined to stick with his plan, convincing himself to stay neutral and detached. That's the plan!
Then she leaned over him.
Madison Thorne Grey
#11. The real meaning of detached love is to let others exist without forcing our will upon them. That is spiritual love.
Harold Klemp
#12. She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.
Patrick White
#13. Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.
Rajneesh
#14. 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
#15. Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#16. We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.
Harry Stack Sullivan
#17. The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.
Victor Hugo
#18. 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?
Billy Beane
#19. Of all the views that are detached from reality, the most delusional is that Christians are persecuted in the U.S.
Glenn Greenwald
#20. 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.
Antonin Artaud
#21. But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.
Ernest Hemingway,
#22. And so the pair of them went on in the big, draughty house, with the carriages rushing in the square beyond, irritating each other as only two people who are united by blood and detached by temperament can do.
D.J. Taylor
#23. 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
#24. 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.
Charles Caldwell Ryrie
#25. Imagine yourself as a pebble which has been thrown into a river. The pebble sinks through the water effortlessly. Detached from everything, it falls by the
Thich Nhat Hanh
#26. I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It's the only place I'm completely alone - up in the air, detached from everything.
Angelina Jolie
#27. Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.
C.S. Lewis
#28. Love gives us a heightened consciousness through which to apprehend the world, but anger gives us a precise, detached perception of its own.
Scott Spencer
#29. Am discovering her pretenses. She is always smiling, gay, but underneath she feels unreal, remote, detached from experience. She acts as if she were asleep. She is trying to awaken by falling into bed with anyone who invites her.
Anais Nin
#30. I was only 21 when I bought a five-bedroom detached house in Stoke-on-Trent that was way outside of my financial status in life. I did it by borrowing money from my family and the bank, taking out a huge mortgage.
John Caudwell
#31. From the severe, straight-backed posture to the impersonal grace of his cupped yellow head; from his detached blue eyes to the arrogance of his cheekbones, Laurent was complicated and contradictory, and Damen could look nowhere else.
C.S. Pacat
#32. 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
#33. Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.
Eve Ensler
#34. If any of your body parts become detached due to an unfortunate encounter with a crank, I highly advise you leave said body part behind and run like hell. Unless it's a leg, of course.
James Dashner
#35. 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
#36. The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.
T. S. Eliot
#37. [On New York:] ... a city rose before me. It was narrow and tall like a gothic temple, surrounded by water, and ... it suddenly appeared, as if with a slight push it detached itself out of the invisible into the visible.
Nina Berberova
#38. 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.
Menachem Mendel Of Kotzk
#39. True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.
Asger Jorn
#40. I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.
Iain Pears
#41. Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.
Henepola Gunaratana
#42. 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.
Peggy Noonan
#43. 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
#44. The Master stays behind; that is why she is ahead. She is detached from all things; that is why she is one with them. Because she has let go of herself, she is perfectly fulfilled.
Lao-Tzu
#45. Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
Oscar Isaac
#46. The war consciousness is purposely cultivated to guide the male away from the natural, healthy balances between masculine and feminine energies, and toward more unbalanced and detached psychologies.
Bryant McGill
#47. 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.
Gilberto Gil
#48. To think? That's it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
Rene Descartes
#49. Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.
Amy Ephron
#50. Moreover, as usual, she wasn't able to live in the moment. Maybe that's what grief is: a permanent disconnect from here and now. She looked at the games adults played and felt detached. It was easy to tell herself: "I'm not here.".
David Foenkinos
#51. At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached.
Anna Kavan
#52. Do you think that angels are detached?" asked
Anne Rice
#53. The mentality of a successful relationship: detached and dedicated.
Bogdan Vaida
#54. He'd somehow lived a detached life, more Like a spectator than a participant in his own existence.
Guillaume Musso
#55. The myth of the detached manipulator and compliant crowd has, since the Twenties, also been abundantly re-echoed by academic students of mass suasion.
Edward L. Bernays
#57. It's not that I'm some detached lab animal just conditioned to ignore violence, but my first instinct is maybe it's not too late to dab club soda on the bloodstain.
Chuck Palahniuk
#58. Our love had been liking; our feelings had been ordinary, not Shakespearean. I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia. I
Rachel Cohn
#59. 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.
Ralph Ellison
#60. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.
Epictetus
#61. I am on three different mood stabilizers so I don't think I experience a full range of emotions anymore. I feel abstractly dissatisfied with my life but mostly detached.
Gabby Bess
#62. The Jungian therapist taught me the difference between the ego and the shadow. I realized I'd been so busy being a good girl that I'd completely detached from my shadow. It's something we all have, and it's where all the creative juices are.
Sue Grafton
#63. As a warrior, she won't have allowed herself to mourn. But women can't make themselves as detached as men. Our hearts are bigger. We feel loss in a way men don't. Orna has the body and mind of a warrior but her heart is like mine, and I know inside she's weeping.
Darren Shan
#64. 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.
Max Picard
#65. I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy.
Isabelle Eberhardt
#66. 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
#67. 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.
George Clarke
#68. Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and took out only when she had to, using it with no feeling of ownership, as if the infrequency of her smiles had made her forget the normal way to use them.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#69. 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
#70. I vaguely remember we had an air-raid shelter in our yard. We lived in a semi-detached house with a small garden in the suburbs of Salford, a couple of miles from the docks.
Robert Powell
#71. A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information.
Henry F. Ashurst
#72. Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.
Maya Beiser
#73. Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he?
Patricia Highsmith
#74. He had thought on the train of sending his head to a laundry, it was true, but he had been drawn not so much to the idea of the laundered head as to that of the sleeping body. A very pleasant sleep, with head detached.
Yasunari Kawabata
#75. To go against gangs or drugs is meaningless unless this is mostly done by filling in the empties, the vacuums, and stop the neglect and harm we do as detached, mean, irresponsible adults and communities. The answer is in our hands.
Luis J. Rodriguez
#76. For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.
Brad Listi
#77. When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit them, they are also cut off from the historical circumstances that shape them, and it becomes difficult to perceive the changing context within which they must be viewed.
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
#78. If we are to seek a body of lore that truly manifests our Odinist heritage, we have to remain detached to the Christianized and mutilated sources that have been handed down to us.
The Norroena Society
#79. Being detached means recognizing our emotions as what they are: clouds, sunbursts, weather. They pass. So rather than feed on my anger or sadness, rolling about in it like a pig in its own filth, I see that it is weather, and know that in time it will pass
Suzanne Morrison
#80. There's an innocence to Ozzy Osbourne. He's mingling, but he's somewhat detached.
Johnny Depp
#81. Growing up it all seems so one-sided Opinions all provided The future pre-decided Detached and subdivided In the mass production zone Nowhere is the dreamer Or the misfit so alone
Bradley J. Birzer
#82. Mumbai is different! It's busy, it's dusty, it's posh, it's different from everything I've ever known. You can barely see the sky, hidden behind the tall buildings, the moon seems so detached, the trees look indifferent and distant.
Debalina Haldar
#83. I did not hesitate to quit my courses and leave my apartment, feeling as detached from everything as only at twenty-three one feels, when all is temporary and settling down means to stagnate
Edgar Cantero
#84. We [postmodernists] can safely navigate the danger of life, detached from the true and everlasting dangers of obedience and commitment, for nothing has the right to make a claim on our souls.
R. R. Reno
#85. Reality is a flux, an endless becoming that is beyond words and language - all language is metaphor, useful to us but ultimately detached from reality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#86. I remember thinking with a queer detached portion of my mind that here was someone wringing her hands. One reads about it and one never sees it, and now here it was.
Mary Stewart
#87. One cannot understand a political "system" detached from its societal context
Andrew J. Robinson
#88. The Church's challenge is staying close to the people, close to the people of the United States, not being a detached Church from the people but close to them, close, close, and this is something that the Church in the United States has understood and understood well.
Pope Francis
#89. If Jesus Christ is the head of the church and hence the source and goal of its entire life, true growth is only possible in obedience to Him. Conversely, if the church becomes detached from Jesus Christ and His Word, it cannot grow however active and successful it may seem to be.
Os Guinness
#90. 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.
Bryant Gumbel
#91. 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.
Janwillem Van De Wetering
#92. Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be..
Deepak Chopra
#93. Her head swung around as if it had become detached from her spine. "My God! Your brother is HOT!"
Calista shook her head and looped an arm around the woman's waist. "Yes, he is. I'll be sure to tell my family you thought so."
"It doesn't count when they're drunk. House rule," I complained.
Ashlan Thomas
#94. When healing, the healer should be calm and detached. He should not be nervous, "overconcerned" or attached to the expected results. Otherwise, the projected pranic energy will not be released and will return to him.
Choa Kok Sui
#95. The photograph, now they are detached from their original surroundings, they are involved in a close world in which they only relate to each other: all the rest of 'reality' has vanished. This allows us to see those elements from a new point of view and perhaps to reach a better understanding ...
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
#96. Ralph started to scream in pain. Not that 'stubbed your toe' sort of pain, but more a kind of 'detached kneecap' kind of pain, only with seven simultaneous childbirths, neuralgia, and a tooth abscess all mixed in as well, for good luck. The sort you hope you never get to experience.
Jasper Fforde
#97. A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind you of the wife who complained, 'When I ask John if he loves me, he thinks I am asking for information'.
Edward Coke
#98. I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.
Mark Edwards
#99. I could see that Isabel listened to him with growing exasperation. Larry had no notion that he was driving a dagger in her heart and with his every detached word twisting it in the wound. But when she spoke it was with a faint smile on her lips.
W. Somerset Maugham
#100. David Bowie is detached from everything, yet open to everything; stripped of the notion that both art and life are impossible.
Morrissey
