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7. “Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought-that was his goal.”
Hermann Hesse
Emptiness, Peace, Self, Detachment, Spiritual Goal, Transformation
8. “Kamaswami conducted his business with care and often with passion, but Siddhartha looked upon all of this as if it was a game, the rules of which he tried hard to learn precisely, but the contents of which did not touch his heart.” Hermann Hesse Business, Passion, Detachment, Game, Exploration, Authenticity
9. “For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life.” Hermann Hesse Loneliness, Atmosphere, Self, Detachment, Introspection, Personal Experience
10. “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.” T.S. Eliot Emotion, Expression, Introspection, Detachment, Creativity, Identity
15. “The reality of the world is the result of our attachment. It is the reality of the self which we transfer into things. It has nothing to do with independent reality. That is only perceptible through total detachment. Should only one thread remain, there is still attachment.” Simone Weil Reality, Attachment, Perception, Detachment, Self-awareness, Philosophical Insight
18. “She had a strong, if erroneous, conviction of her own futility, and wished she had never come out of her backwater, where nothing happened except art and literature, and where no one ever got married or succeeded in remaining engaged.” E.M. Forster Futility, Isolation, Creativity, Regret, Detachment, Introspection
20. “I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it – and I’m sure I can’t tell you whether the fate’s good or evil. I don’t die – I don’t fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I’m just not there.” E.M. Forster Fate, Emotional Isolation, Human Experience, Detachment, Personal Journey, Existential Themes
27. “She saw herself in this connexion without detachment – saw others alone with intensity; otherwise she might have been struck, fairly have been amused, by her free assignment of the pachydermatous quality.” Henry James Emotional Intensity, Self-Reflection, Detachment, Quality, Perspective, Struggle
28. “She was keeping her head for a reason, for a cause; and the labour of this detachment, with the labour of her forcing the pitch of it down, held them together in the steel hoop of an intimacy compared with which artless passion would have been but a beating of the air.” Henry James Reasoned Detachment, Controlled Intimacy, Detachment, Intimacy, Reasoned, Controlled
Detachment Quotes by Famous Authors
7. “Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought-that was his goal.”
Hermann Hesse Emptiness, Peace, Self, Detachment, Spiritual Goal, Transformation
8. “Kamaswami conducted his business with care and often with passion, but Siddhartha looked upon all of this as if it was a game, the rules of which he tried hard to learn precisely, but the contents of which did not touch his heart.”
Hermann Hesse Business, Passion, Detachment, Game, Exploration, Authenticity
9. “For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life.”
Hermann Hesse Loneliness, Atmosphere, Self, Detachment, Introspection, Personal Experience
10. “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.”
T.S. Eliot Emotion, Expression, Introspection, Detachment, Creativity, Identity
15. “The reality of the world is the result of our attachment. It is the reality of the self which we transfer into things. It has nothing to do with independent reality. That is only perceptible through total detachment. Should only one thread remain, there is still attachment.”
Simone Weil Reality, Attachment, Perception, Detachment, Self-awareness, Philosophical Insight
18. “She had a strong, if erroneous, conviction of her own futility, and wished she had never come out of her backwater, where nothing happened except art and literature, and where no one ever got married or succeeded in remaining engaged.”
E.M. Forster Futility, Isolation, Creativity, Regret, Detachment, Introspection
20. “I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it – and I’m sure I can’t tell you whether the fate’s good or evil. I don’t die – I don’t fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I’m just not there.”
E.M. Forster Fate, Emotional Isolation, Human Experience, Detachment, Personal Journey, Existential Themes
27. “She saw herself in this connexion without detachment – saw others alone with intensity; otherwise she might have been struck, fairly have been amused, by her free assignment of the pachydermatous quality.”
Henry James Emotional Intensity, Self-Reflection, Detachment, Quality, Perspective, Struggle
28. “She was keeping her head for a reason, for a cause; and the labour of this detachment, with the labour of her forcing the pitch of it down, held them together in the steel hoop of an intimacy compared with which artless passion would have been but a beating of the air.”
Henry James Reasoned Detachment, Controlled Intimacy, Detachment, Intimacy, Reasoned, Controlled
