Detached Quotes

Sometimes your advice prevails; sometimes it doesn’t prevail. It’s not a matter of winning or losing.

I'm very nonchalant. I don't care about anything.

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.

Obviously, I care about the kids. Family, all that sort of stuff. But really, I don't care about life, don't care about death. Nothing. That's the kind of man you are dealing with. That's why I can't be beaten.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.

I enjoy playing, but once the match ends the football is finished for me.

I would prefer not to be involved in party politics.

We don’t have a dog in that fight.

I am open-minded on all questions I care nothing about.

Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy.

My father was all brain and little heart.

No, I don't think I'm ever going to get serious.

p.61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that. He was a cold, disquieting presence in the room; his presence had a strange quality: it made itself felt and yet it made them feel that he was not there; or perhaps that he was and they weren't.

I don't take anything too seriously.

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

I'm an observer in life, not a participant. That's why I'm a documentarian who looks through a camera. I'm not a touchy-feely person; I'm not a seminar person.

I've been so in the zone, you don't know where you are or where you're at.

I don't deny or affirm anything. I'm not very personal.

Definitely scatterbrained. I internalize a lot of thoughts, and sometimes it seems like I'm not listening or totally zoned out, but I'm always on a loop of ideas and song titles. I'm definitely kind of a space cadet, but I'm very laid back.

Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.

My girlfriend has been the ice.

Independent and uninvolved. Must be nice. -Tris