Top Detachment Quotes

  • He was hurting, and I hurt with him. We had never been able to maintain any level of detachment from each other’s suffering, and wedidn’t now. – RK Lilley

    He was hurting, and I hurt with him. We had never been able to maintain any level of detachment from each other’s suffering, and wedidn’t now.– RK Lilley

  • Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. – Isabel Allende

    Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.– Isabel Allende

  • If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things. – Richard Rohr

    If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.– Richard Rohr

  • [D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95) – Stephen Levine

    [D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)– Stephen Levine

  • Expressing intense feelings usually portends better results than emotional detachment does. – Mark Murphy

    Expressing intense feelings usually portends better results than emotional detachment does.– Mark Murphy

  • Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises. – Gary Hopkins

    Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.– Gary Hopkins

  • DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it. – Jane Espenson

    DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it.– Jane Espenson

  • Compassion stands on the pillars of trust, love, awareness and detachment. – Amit Ray

    Compassion stands on the pillars of trust, love, awareness and detachment.– Amit Ray

  • To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love. – Sharon Salzberg

    To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.– Sharon Salzberg

  • We co-existed in peaceful detachment – Tsitsi Dangarembga

    We co-existed in peaceful detachment– Tsitsi Dangarembga