Unattachment Quotes

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

I just had the joy of taking pictures, and I never cared about my negatives. I just gave them away whenever anybody asked for them.

In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

The man who doesn't want anything is invincible.

Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or relationships. I'm always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time.

God is love and doesn't ask for anything back in return. So it's that process of letting go and just allowing, and just being in that pure state.

Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.

Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities

My first two novels featured narrators who were aggressively unattached: They couldn't form any sort of genuine relationship. So I had thoroughly explored the geography of loneliness and isolation.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

The strange thing - and this is one of the advantages of being incredibly shallow and superficial - is that wherever I am, that's sort of home.

Love is not my bag.

Home has always been wherever I am. I'm not very attached to walls - or people, for that matter - so I've always loved travelling around. A book in my back pocket, a diary, and a pen is all I need to call any place home.

The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.

I've figured out over the years, you can only hurt me if I love you; if I don't know you, I really don't care.

I work very hard every day not to have a lot of expectations. You just let go of the results, because a book will be on bookshelves and in libraries long after we're gone, and, in some ways, whatever happens is none of our business.

In this industry, where things change so quickly, I've found that having no expectations is the happiest way to go.