Quotes About Withdrawal

Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value.

I don't really have a social life.

This world we exist in is populated by people who have really shut themselves off from life.

I don't have any social life or anything.

I spent much of my life hiding.

It turns and that caffeine is a highly addictive substance with really unpleasant physical withdrawal symptoms, if you're not bumping your brain chemistry to compensate, and that one of those withdrawal symptoms is an evil splitting headache. Which Farweather told me all about, in excruciating detail, except when she was sleeping, or just curled up suffering on the floor.

I guess it was probably a couple of diar before I started being able to hold a conversation again, and by then I really didn't want to.

In turning away from each other, entities withdraw care for each other. Thus the earth is not dying. But the earth may be turning away from certain forms of existence. In this way of thinking the Desert is not that in which life does not exist, A Desert is where a series of entities have withdrawn care for the kinds of entities humans are and this has made humans into another form of existence: bone, mummy, ash, soil.

Seneca's solution to life's inevitable cruelties was to withdraw. It was an increasingly attractive reaction in the later imperial age. The wise man must shun unnecessary human contact and connections, Seneca said. He must live within, and for, himself. He must cultivate the virtue of apatheia, literally an indifference to the fate of others—apathy even, in the last moment, to his own fate (faced by unjust accusations by the emperor Nero, Seneca and his wife chose suicide).

It matters not what growth has been made in grace, how well experienced we may be in the spiritual life, or how eminent the position we have occupied in the Lord's service—when He withdraws His sustaining hand the madness which is in our hearts by nature at once asserts itself, gains the upper hand, and leads us into a course of folly.

Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.

I live an isolated life, and I rarely meet others.

Definition: "Implosive" anger is internalized anger that is never expressed. Sparked by: Fear of confrontation; belief that feeling or expressing anger is wrong. How to recognize: Person denies that he or she is angry; responds by withdrawing; says things like, "I'm not angry, but I'm disappointed." Results: Physiological and psychological stress; "passive-aggressive" behavior; can lead to resentment, bitterness, and even hatred and violence.

When the Lord is pleased to withdraw, the soul is left in great loneliness; yet all the possible efforts that it might make to regain His companionship are of little avail, for the Lord gives this when He wills and it cannot be acquired. Sometimes again, companionship comes from a saint which is also a great help to us.

Include me out.

having not for some days been in the streets; but now how few people I see, and those looking like people that had taken leave of the world.

but now how few people I see, and those looking like people that had taken leave of the world.

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.

What I'm saying is, you're a turned-inward soul; it's the way you cope with the hard things in life. You hide away.

When you're depressed you retreat and you go into a smaller world. This is why Brighton worked well for the story, because it's a smaller world than London.

It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.

I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don't have time for them. I can't make phone calls and stuff. I just sit on my own for days.

The deconstruction of belief. Piece by piece. The only way to manage loss is to withdraw, thought by thought, giving the retreat a framework and a purpose. A set of rites. A clear recessional. Leaving the sanctuary intact.

How often did he feel it now, this gorgeous, furtive seclusion? In the bath sometimes, maybe. Though Jean failed to understand his need for periodic isolation and regularly dragged him back to earth mid-soak by hammering on the locked door in search of bleach or dental floss.