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Quotes About Disengagement

As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.
~ John Knox
There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
~ Peter F. Drucker
I try every day and every night to find a movie or a TV show that I can watch, but I just can't make it past ten minutes of anything.
~ David Berman
He also dropped out of the scene and is no longer to be found among other flambeurs.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Hey, says Hayden, I'm Switzerland; neutral as can be, and also with great chocolate. Get lost, Roland tells him. Already am. And Hayden strolls away.
~ Neal Shusterman
Most people, however, didn't take a position either way. They just wanted to disappear into the pleasantries of their lives. As long as when bad thing happened, they happened somewhere else, to someone they didn't know, it was not their problem.
~ Neal Shusterman
But I didn't want to be anything anyhow. And I was certainly succeeding.
~ Charles Bukowski
Nothing does anything for me anymore.
~ Charlie Kaufman
Convinced that there is little they can do, they do little.
~ Tony Judt
Oh, wow!" he groaned. "If you were a TV program, I'd switch channels.
~ Kerstin Gier
I do not want to take part in my life. It can just go on without me; I'm not giving it any help. I don't want to see it, I don't want to talk to it, I don't want it anywhere near me. It takes too much energy. I refuse to be a part of it. If you have a life, even if you get used to it ruining your sleep, spoiling your fun, requiring your somewhat undivided attention, what overwhelming relief one must feel when it finally skips town.
~ Carrie Fisher
Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool.
~ George Sanders
Put … the troll … down … and slowly back away.
~ Neal Stephenson
I'm really not aware of much press. I could drive myself mental if I went on the internet. I'd probably overanalyse it anyway. There's so much media that I'd feel bombarded, so I don't pay it much attention.
~ Konnie Huq
I don't get involved with the music scene any more. It's just alien to me.
~ Shaun Ryder
Jax stood up straight and clapped his hands together. "Welp," he announced, "I'm bored. This is stupid and I'm bored.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Anyway, I have long had a very definite tendency to tune out the moment I come anywhere near either a pulpit or a soapbox.
~ James Baldwin
I left school early in my last year before I took my A-levels. I wasn't expelled. It was just a mutual understanding. I wasn't interested in going to school and they said, 'You're not turning up,' so we severed ties. Both sides appreciated it.
~ Tom Sturridge
Many young Muslims see no opportunities for themselves and do not feel they have control over their lives or a stake in their nation's future. Such pessimism leads to disengagement. We risk losing a generation of young Muslims to apathy and extremism.
~ Najib Razak
Go to a Cubs game and see how many people are in the stands, because when you can't win, nobody cares anymore.
~ Ann Coulter
Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.
~ Lin Yutang
I have no desire to ever be involved in the image-board world again.
~ Fredrick Brennan
Frankly, I have no interest in politics.
~ Kumar Sanu
I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.
~ Ken Livingstone