Quotes About Withdrawal

When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.

I don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.

I got nothing. I got my shoes and my pants. I'm staying with a friend. I stop by my mother's every once in a while to get my calls. I don't want to be anywhere anybody can find me.

Forsake the world and cling to the shadows.

Only catatonics and coma patients can persevere in a dignified withdrawal from life's rattle and hum.

Only catatonics and coma patients can persevere in a dignified withdrawal from life's rattle and hum. Without a "yes" in our hearts, nothing would be done. And to be done with our existence en masse would be the most ambitious affirmation of all.

The same taboos against genuine feeling that were in place in his childhood will clamp down around him all over again and he'll become what we might call emotionally illiterate. He won't put words to his feelings, much less talk them over. So the more frustrated his wife becomes, the more he'll withdraw or blow up or freeze. In this vicious circle, a past issue comes to life in the present.

People who have experienced trauma may have a tendency to isolate or to withdraw for safety into a lonely world of their own in order to avoid pain. Reaching out may make them feel too vulnerable or rejection sensitive, or they may be out of touch with their need for connection and support or not know how to bring it into their experience.

I am not involved with 'Hera Pheri 3.' I have told the makers that I am not interested.

I've seen numerous situations where collectors have taken more than the agreed-upon amount from someone's account once they gained access.

he quit drinking coffee, and naturally, his brain stopped working.

He was trudging out across the field with his chin down so that withdrawing in the firelight he looked like a headless revenant turned away from the warmth of men's gatherings.

It was one thingfor a person who didn't really know me to act distant, but it was quite another for someone to get to know me and then back away.

It was one thing for a person who didn't really know me to act distant, but it was quite another for someone to get to know me and then to back away.

A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.

And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living.

Dear IRS, I am writing to you to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list.

A bean bag is a perfect place to sulk. You can sink way down deep, and sulk for hours... You only have to stick your head up once in a while... to see if anybody cares.

It was a pattern he would play out his entire life: Rather than lose someone he cared for, he would withdraw first, usually by creating some mock conflict as a way of lessening the abandonment he felt was inevitable.

Vigny, more secret,As if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon.

I'm not a recluse — I'm just playing hard-to-get with society.

Rommel realized this at once and brought up an 88mm battery. He personally directed the 88s shot by shot with the result that over 30 British tanks were knocked out and the enemy withdrew.

The nature of the ray is to extend and withdraw, to appear and disappear; and the duration of its existence is short when compared with the duration of the eternal

When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.