Quotes of: Detach Keyword

For man, mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation. Mind absorbed in sense objects is the cause of bondage, and mind detached from the sense objects is the cause of liberation.

Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find it alarming that no one questions it.

Emma Watson

When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached.

Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it.

The Semi-Detached House

But vilifying those we love always detaches us from them a little. We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.

Madame Bovary

What did I get in return? Coldness and emotional detachment. You are selfish and bitter and you wouldn’t know a good thing if it fell out of the sky at your feet.

The Opportunist

She couldn't detach from him, couldn't catch her breath, and didn't want to. Not ever again.

The Werewolf Wears Prada

To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.

The Way of the Sufi

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

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

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

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

What 'Scream' was great at was presenting ironic detachment and then making you actually care about the people that were having it, and juxtaposing it with their situation, all in the service of making a great horror movie. It was fresh.

Joss Whedon

Surveys often show people would prefer a detached house with a lawn and driveway to an apartment. I understand this. It's not my place to presume to tell people where they can live. But perhaps that dream will simply not be possible in the future.

Norman Foster

To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God.

Henri Nouwen

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

Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks like a soap opera where everybody is indoors, not working and living off their emotions.

Isabel Allende

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

Isabella Rossellini

It's not that I am not emotional, but I am extremely secure and curb it, as I am afraid to let go and be broken. So, I have cultivated myself to be detached in life, specially where movies are concerned.

Ranbir Kapoor

I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.

Frank Darabont

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

What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached.

Charles Bronson