Quotes About Withdrawal
I found a note he'd left behind entitled 'Ciao': One just keeps saying, 'No...No...No...' Head bowed, hat in hand, A cringing, cunning little step back, With each dialectical evasion, Retreating, receding, 'no...no...no...' Until one simply disappears...
~ Mark Leyner
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I must give up seeing people, I told myself.
~ Anthony Burgess
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It was not possible to communicate with her because she would not abandon her coffee cup.
~ Shirley Jackson
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Another friend of mine, whose insatiable scientific curiosity has impelled him to the most out-of-the-way researches and to the acquisition of encyclopaedic knowledge, has assured me that the Yogi by their practices of withdrawal from the world, concentrating attention on bodily functions, peculiar methods of breathing, actually are able to produce new sensations and diffused feelings in themselves which he regards as regressions to primordial, deeply buried mental states.
~ Sigmund Freud
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El espantoso descenso al fondo de la tristeza. Por lo mismo que uno está triste, no tiene más ganas de hacer nada alegre. Ya nunca pongo un disco cuando me levanto.Ya nunca escucho música, no voy más al cine, no me compro nada que me guste.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
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I never went dancing again.
~ Tilly Dunn, Exit Stage Left
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He hid in the crowd, she hid in herself.
~ Raubin Chaudhary
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And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living.
~ D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow
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The researchers consistently found that all kinds of mental abilities began to come back online—after as little as four months of aerobic exercise. A different study looked at school-age children. Children jogged for 30 minutes two or three times a week. After 12 weeks, their cognitive performance had improved significantly compared with prejogging levels. When the exercise program was withdrawn, the scores plummeted back to their preexperiment levels.
~ John Medina
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Endo, maker of Opana, Percocet, and Percodan, distributed a patient education publication that said withdrawal symptoms and increased tolerance to narcotics are not the same as addiction. "Addicts take opioids for other reasons, such as unbearable emotional problems."* The
~ John Temple
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He felt that wherever he lived, and wherever he would live hereafter, he was leaving the city more and more, withdrawing into the wilderness.
~ John Williams
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In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Explosive force of any mortification. Every vanquished desire affords us power. We have the more hold over this world the further we withdraw from it, the less we adhere to it. Renunciation confers an infinite power.
~ Emil Cioran
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Nu am nimic de spus nim?nui,am intrat de mult? vreme în Incomunicabil.
~ Emil Cioran
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We have the more hold over this world the further we withdraw from it, the less we adhere to it.
~ Emil M. Cioran
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Mari had stopped responding to the outside world, she'd pulled the plug on the whole system, she was taking a break—I felt convinced of this. Because, as she saw things right now, life was nothing but pain.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
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I know what it looks like when someone's pushing the whole world away and how much you can lose while you're doing it.
~ Barbara Davis
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I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.
~ Barbara Hambly
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Alexander Guchkov, a subsequent Minister of War, testified that he "reached the firm conviction that the war was lost" after Tannenberg. The defeat gave new vigor to the pro-German groups who began openly to agitate for withdrawal from the war. Count Witte was convinced the war would ruin Russia, Rasputin that it would destroy the regime.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
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I'm kind of a recluse.
~ Faye Dunaway
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If I could, I'd be a recluse. I do want to be one. I'm trying really hard. But it's a difficult thing to pull off in this job.
~ Chris Lowe
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
~ Camille Paglia
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When I got the sack from Huddersfield it hurt me badly. I became reclusive, I never went to a match, don't think I left the house for five months.
~ Steve Bruce
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People have all sorts of expectations which you can't meet. Me, I'm so reclusive I stay away from such things as much as I can. I never go anywhere.
~ Ry Cooder
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