Detachment Quotes

“I love my life, but I don't live it.”

“Do not identify with your thoughts. They come and go like clouds in the sky.”

“Let go of everything and you will have everything.”

“Detachment is not about not caring. It's about caring enough to allow another person to have his or her own experience, without trying to control it.”

“The artist must be a man of the world, and yet he must not be of the world.”

“To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.”

“We must not achieve detachment, we must be detached.”

“Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off.”

“I both felt and did not feel. I was holding the girl in my arms and I was kissing her, but I did not feel that I was kissing her.”

“You have to be a loner. You have to be detached.”

“I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.”

“Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.”

“The essence of the Way is detachment.”

“Whatever you have to do, do it with a detached mind.”

“A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing for him to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm.”

“To be free is to be detached.”

“His training had been in observation, not participation.”

“All around them men were walking, shouting, dying, but the two of them walked on untouched, untouchable, in a bubble of lucidity, in a single straight line.”

“There are two things that I have always observed: to have no will of my own, and to have no attachment to the world.”

“When you've got a dead body in your room, it's a bit of a bloody nuisance.”