I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it. Hugh Leonard
Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult. Prem Rawat
You can stay in society and be alone, as long as you can be detached from the world. This is why I don't think I have ever gone for the easy option or done things that were expected of me. Eugène Ionesco
Conscience is deceived by the social. Our supplementary energy (imaginative) is to a great extent taken up with the social. It has to be detached from it. That is the most difficult of detachments. Simone Weil
You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective. Abba Eban
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. Johannes Stark