Attachment Quotes

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. (Simone Weil)
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. View quote
Erich Fromm
A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones. View quote
Sogyal Rinpoche
When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment. View quote
Helen Fisher
People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment. View quote
Lionel Shriver
If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love. View quote
Alphonsus Liguori
Christians are beginning to lose the spirit of intolerance which animated them: experience has shown the error of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and of the persecution of those Christians in France whose belief differed a little from that of the king. They have realized that zeal for the advancement of religion is different from a due attachment to it; and that in order to love it and fulfill its behests, it is not necessary to hate and persecute those who are opposed to it. (Montesquieu)
It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber. View quote
Edmund Burke
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end. View quote
Ramakrishna
Detachment from the world as an attachment to the ego... Who can realize the detachment in which you are as far away from yourself as you are from the world? View quote
Emil Cioran
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. View quote
George Washington
As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom, - the very fashion of which "passeth away." View quote
François Fénelon
Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from today to begin anew, to live day and night in mindfulness, and not to repeat my previous mistakes. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle. View quote
Jane Austen
There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hard-working artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection? (Thomas Mann)
The revolutionary can have no friendship or attachment, except for those who have proved by their actions that they, like him, are dedicated to revolution. View quote
Sergey Nechayev
Be Good, Do Good. Do thou always without attachment perform action which should be done, for by performing action without attachment, man reaches the Supreme. View quote
Swami Sivananda
Love... no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that's certain. View quote
Arthur Rimbaud
That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses, without their own consent, or that of their representives so elected, nor bound by any law to which they have not, in like manner, assembled, for the public good. View quote
George Mason