The essence of the Way is detachment.

- Bodhidharma

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

- John Irving

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

- Meister Eckhart

I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.

- Randa Haines