Quotes About Distanced

It was like I wasn't thinking. I swear to God. It was like someone else was doing it. I remember I'm looking down at her just before I bring it down and I'm looking at her face . . . she's so scared . . . but it's like I had nothing to do with it. It's like I'm a million miles away.

There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

The culture of modern humanism into which he had thus incorporated himself was to remain important to Hobbes for the rest of his life, though, as we shall see, he distanced himself from many of its specific elements, and in particular its openness to classical republicanism.

I feel like I'm away for much of my own life.

Do I want to, can I face my own pain alone now? Shock keeps horror at bay. Hands off. Distanced by mist and pride and drink and friends and necessities like food, babies, fires... So the pain sits still, crouching, heavy, occupying all my inside, always, all the time, whatever my outside does.

'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.

There's a tired notion that the photojournalist has to be disengaged to be able to shoot what he shoots, and that's such a cliched idea of what the experience is. Of course they're engaged, and they're not distanced.

One is either perfectly present and entirely innocent of one's own contentment (which is remarkably like not being content) or one is aware, and thus distanced, and no longer at home or happy. Am I wrong?

And for the people who promote drones as the answer to everything, there is a danger from being distanced from the reality of the ugly mess of war.

I need more balance, a more distanced perspective. I should accept what is. nightmares are a part of existence.

Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.

canceled, isolated, distanced dazed, befuddled, harried rationed, washed, disinfected zoomed, homeschooled furloughed, fired, scared impoverished, subsidized learned, helped, sacrificed inspired, respected, thanked hospitalized, intubated, died lied, gaslighted, denied masked, tested, untested endured, abided, accepted annoyed, outraged, protested anticipated, waited, voted

The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being stretched and looped and twisted out of shape.

Nechtr looks at him, but that's almost even creepier: this Mark guy looks at you with the kind of distanced concentration you use to look at something you're eating.

In 2014, when he first seriously began to consider running for president, Melania was one of the few who thought it was possible he could win. It was a punch line for his daughter, Ivanka, who had carefully distanced herself from the campaign. With a never-too-hidden distaste for her stepmother, Ivanka would say to friends: All you have to know about Melania is that she thinks if he runs he'll certainly win.

With the distanced drumbeat of the Revolution, the chink of coins suddenly became more important than commitment to the cause.