Quotes About Withdrawal

Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission.

All vital persons are the target of the curiosity of those who are not vital; but the few whose opinions concern you will know the truth, and the others are of no importance. Yet many withdraw from active life, not to take up an intenser inner life, but merely to avoid the vulgar curiosity of the crowd.

Breaking any had habit is hard to do, but breaking apart a pleasure-trap cycle can he the most difficult challenge of a lifetime. The change of even a single factor, such as removing morning caffeine, will often result in a person temporarily feeling worse, as they experience unwelcome fatigue as well as the headaches, nausea, and anxiety characteristic of drug withdrawal.

We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.

She'd got so used to not wanting to go out and be sociable that saying no had become her natural default setting. The moment anyone invited her anywhere, her brain began scrambling for plausible excuses as to why she couldn't make it.

Borderlines, who are inclined towards feeling left out and undeserving, tend to identify with the withdrawal. Because of their susceptibility to the projections of others, borderlines do not recognize withdrawal as a maladaptive process. The identification is usually with a split-off aspect of the self that is shrouded in confusion.

Some cover themselves with a jacket or blanket; like turtles, they withdraw into their shells.

cut himself out of his own life, the

She immediately withdrew from the casement, and, though much agitated, sought in sleep the refreshment of a short oblivion.

I suspected that if I kept up this curtailing, this cauterizing, all the distrust and systematic removal of myself from society, by age 20 it was more than likely I'd be at the stage of no longer opening my mouth to anyone, anywhere at all.

says addicts are rendered comatose for the first two weeks, pumped full of sedatives to keep them quiet while they undergo detox,

The circumstances of his life were marked by that strange but rather common phenomenon – perhaps, in fact, it's true for all lives – of being tailored to the image and likeness of his instincts, which tended towards inertia and withdrawal.

The nocturnal glory of being great without being anything! The sombre majesty of splendours no one knows… And I suddenly experience the sublime feeling of a monk in the wilderness or of a hermit in his retreat, acquainted with the substance of Christ in the sands and in the caves of withdrawal from the world.

I decided to abstain from everything, to go forward in nothing, to reduce action to a minimum, to make it hard for people and events to find me, to perfect the art of abstinence, and to take abdication to unprecedented heights.

I'm not involved with the female world.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

I know for me personally, I'm a person that tends to pull back from the people that love me when I'm going through something.

Maybe by nature and because of my past I protect myself. The minute I feel any tension I take myself away.

As he put it in 1975, Labour was 'neither in favour of being in Europe on principle, or being out of the Common Market on principle'.130 Unable to commit either to membership or to withdrawal, Labour had contained its contradictions within what might be termed 'Schrödinger's Cabinet': a body that was simultaneously pro-Market and anti-Market, until such time as the wave function of Wilsonian ambiguity was collapsed.

just walked away.

capricious impulse, and, withdrawing

If anything, he craved seclusion.

However good-hearted one is, you understand, one eventually stops seeing people who depress you, so in the end Old Dantes was all alone.

he had so long ceased to have any intercourse with the world, that he looked upon himself as dead. The