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Quotes About Disassociation

I have nothing to do with Greg Hardy.
~ Rachael Ostovich
'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another.
~ Eli Roth
I seem to be able to disassociate my insecurities. I know a lot of actors - some of the best actors in the world - can't bear to watch themselves and I have to say I can't relate to that.
~ David Oyelowo
I assume people know how to hit the unfollow.
~ Rex Chapman
Mother—crazy as she was—had an exquisite sensibility. She read nonstop. Loads of history, Russian and Chinese particularly, and art history. There was nothing else to do in that suckhole of a town. You go outside, you run around, people throw dirt balls at you, you get your ass beat. But reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you're not there anymore. It's better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal.
~ Mary Karr
Foreknowledge of the consequences of an act that is then performed generally argues the will to do it; if this occurs repeatedly, and the doer continues to protest that he did not will the consequences, this suggests an extreme and dangerous disassociation of the personality.
~ Mary McCarthy
Well, it's like this: if you're forced into having sex with someone you dislike, you make your mind blank—you pretend to be somewhere else, you tend to forget your body, you hate your body. That's what we do here. We are constantly pretending to be somewhere else—we either plan it or dream it.
~ Azar Nafisi
My father was kicked out of the National Front. He does whatever he wants. It doesn't concern me anymore... I don't talk to him, and I'm not responsible for him or his inadmissible remarks.
~ Marine Le Pen
I think a lot of us have some form of body dysmorphia... You're looking in the mirror, and you're kind of disassociated in some way. I think a good reminder is to actually, physically touch yourself. 'Ah, okay, this is what my arm feels like. It's not what I'm mutating in my head. I'm not some sort of scary monster.'
~ Mary Lambert
The homeless person or the schizophrenic person talking to themselves are disassociated from their immediate environment. They're off in a fantasy, and it's very similar to what happens on a cell phone.
~ Charles Ray
wrote him off the day he left and so did Ellen and
~ Sue Grafton
Not my species, not my problem.
~ Susan Sizemore
and she can't wait to get rid of me and she never wants to see me again as long as she lives.
~ Beverly Cleary
I'm glad I'm not me
~ Bob Dylan
After that, I felt safer. I didn't want anything I said or did that night to be associated with me and my real name and coming from Boston.
~ Sylvia Plath
If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.
~ Fred Allen
no puedo odiarlos porque nada me une a ellos; no tengo nada que ver con ellos.
~ Milan Kundera
He says everything like it happened to someone else.
~ Brent Runyon
I have nothing to do with Donald Trump.
~ Larry Hogan
If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.
~ William Zinsser
Soft Sounds' was about disassociating to preserve my mental health.
~ Michelle Zauner
I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.
~ Carlos Castaneda
The nature of mental illness is to remove one from the normal constraints, perceptions, and understandings of the world around, whatever one's rational self may say. It is not merely a question of feeling but of the world being a different sort of place in all one's perceptions. The struggle this brings, and with the struggle the disassociation from those around one, is profound and utterly overwhelming.
~ Kathryn Greene-McCreight
The more that Consciousness is influenced by prejudices, errors, fantasies, and infantile wishes, the more the already existing Gap will widen into a neurotic disassociation and lead to more or less artificial life, far removed from healthy instincts, nature, and Truth.
~ C.G. Jung