Top 35 Detached Quotes

I’m serious, in general, and I guess I cling onto the little freedom I have offscreen. Having said that, I am funny and, at the same time, detached from a lot of things in life.

That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It’s the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical – in my case, anyway – but also quite detached.

Failure doesn’t scare me. And neither success. I am equally detached to both.

I’m sure everyone has a cool story behind how they got into Formula One, but, for me, Perth, you know, not only in Australia is it detached, but it’s detached from the whole world.

Legal arguments, particularly when they reach the highest court in the land, can be detached from daily life.

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.

I’ve had a couple of experiences. It can get scary. Especially when you’re on TV and you’re in someone’s home every week and they feel like they know you. If you don’t know them back, they don’t understand. They’ve become detached. But most of the time, fans are great.

I like to be in that space, the same middle-class man. Otherwise, you become completely detached from reality.

By itself, just to draw crazy creatures has limited appeal – if I had to give up one thing, it would be the wild imagination. When the work becomes too detached from ordinary life, it starts to fall apart. Fantasy needs to have some connection with reality, or it becomes of its own interest only, insular.

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.

Look, I’ve always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

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.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

I grew up in a single-family detached house. My parents are wonderful.

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.

I ain’t never detached myself from Gary.

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

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?

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

The detached observer’s view is one window on the world.

A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not be for him. He might take part but could not belong.

As a writer, it’s a great narrative tool to have that character who is slightly detached but at the same time observant of his reality, because I think that’s pretty much what being a writer is – being there, watching and internalizing.

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.

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.

I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

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.

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.

Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story – as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else assimilation – but rather, for the vast majority, the adventure of living in between.

Voters don’t just want to see detached and distant faces on TV, they want to feel that they know the people that they’re trying to vote for.

I write and film history; I don’t make it. One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

I’ve always thought that there are many things still left in society that are detached from the sense of ordinary people. I won’t overlook them and I will determine what is right before taking bold action.

Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles and not public pressures of other sort. That’s the meaning of neutrality.