Quotes About Withdrawal

Yeah, I want to retreat from the world and ponder in solitude. At the same time I wouldn't mind at least a couple of people pondering my whereabouts.

All the Heebs asked was to be let alone; they simply did not want to be bothered by life, and each year they shed more and more of the complexities of living. Returned, Baines reflected, to the mere vegetable, which, to a Heeb, was ideal.

I reached Odell convinced that if I never spoke to another human being for the rest of my life, it would be too soon.

Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.

We can't stay in Afghanistan forever.

The United States will not be in Afghanistan forever.

I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.

What do you do, gentlemen, when you place a man in solitude? You isolate him.

Rebus remembered that the premature withdrawal of the penis during intercourse for contraceptive reasons was often referred to as 'getting off at Haymarket.

Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.

I still look at my job as being a doctor of the people, and I'm going to look at the science... If we can find a viable alternative that gave us harm reduction as people are withdrawing from nicotine, I'm happy to engage in that science and see if we can do that.

It has taken stealth and some underhandedness. It has taken clarity of purpose when the moment called for dreamy abandon. He has practised withdrawal.

She had no idea what this odd hyper-awareness of him meant, but she was hoping it was nothing but simple orgasm withdrawal. Because orgasm withdrawal she could handle on her own. Probably. Maybe.

More than anything, I wanted to crawl into a hole and pull it in after me. I wanted to be not.

Sometimes the psychiatric drugs themselves are a factor as withdrawal from selective seratonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) can be particularly unpleasant. British psychiatrist Dr. David Healy notes that "almost all the school shooters that we know of have either been on or using these drugs or in withdrawal from them," a condition called SSRI discontinuation syndrome.

What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.

Negativity in attitude could mean you develop a negative opinion about yourself. A negative attitude could cause you to withdraw from social contact as you are worried how other people may see you. This can lead to feelings of isolation and loneliness, which can then cause low self-esteem.

If there is anything I regret then it is that period when I allowed mystical and theological profundities to mislead me into withdrawing too much into myself. …..When you wake up in the morning and find you are not alone but can see a fellow creature there in the half-light, it makes the world look so much more welcoming. Much ,more welcoming than the devotional journals and whitewashed church walls beloved of clergymen.

You could withdraw, remake your life with a small circle of friends who didn't wish to silence and punish their fellow countrymen with whom they disagreed, who knew the grievous threat to peace that arose from contempt for others, from an inflated self-esteem that became vainglory. But there was no town remote enough, no fortress walls high enough to protect you from mad ideas with mass appeal

I don't do well in social environments.

She jerked the drapes shut, closing him out. Barricading

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

Wonder, as a point of concern, denies its own consideration. It has the remarkable capacity to hide in the midst of its revelation. Wonder, to preserve itself, withdraws. It withdraws from the mind, from the willing mind, which would make of mystery a category.

With an increased need to connect, missed moments of joining can quickly turn from misunderstandings to painful withdrawal into a shame state. While this is possible for anyone, those of us with difficult early histories filled with shame may be at highest risk of feeling the pain of missed connection and amplifying our reactions.