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Quotes About Disconnected

They still feel somehow in transit, still disconnected from their lives, bound up in an alternate schedule, an intimacy only the four of them would share.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Though they are home they are disconcerted by the space, by the uncompromising silence that surrounds them. They still feel somehow in transit, still disconnected from their lives, bound up in an alternate schedule, an intimacy only the four of them share.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.
~ Irvine Welsh
55 percent—about 1.4 million veterans among this generation—said they feel disconnected from civilian life in America.
~ Howard Schultz
A child can love a mother who has no capacity to love him in return, but in time, he realizes that he is pouring his affection not on fertile ground but on rock, where nothing can be grown. A child might then spend a life defined by settled anger or by self-pity. If the mother is not a monster, if she is instead emotionally disconnected and self-absorbed, and if she
~ Dean Koontz
Delirium: unmoored and drifting.
~ Donna Tartt
I felt disincarnate, cut loose from myself. How it would feel to be back in my body again I couldn't imagine.
~ Donna Tartt
I'm a seething cauldron of disconnected rage on the inside, Lieutenant.
~ John Scalzi
Alan hasn't lost it," I said. "And he's been in as long as I have." "That's true," Keyes said. "What's your answer to that, Rosenthal?" "I'm a seething cauldron of disconnected rage on the inside, Lieutenant.
~ John Scalzi
isolated location. He tried to read a few of the highly stylized scribblings,
~ Unknown
Anger is a result of life alienated thinking that is disconnected from needs. It indicates that we have moved up to our head to analyse and judge somebody rather than focus on which of our needs is not being met.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
I read news websites—another distraction—and my mind couldn't take it. The knowledge of so much suffering in the world didn't help put my pain in perspective. It just made me feel powerless. And pathetic that my invisible woes were so paralyzing when there were so many visible woes in the world. My despair intensified. So I decided to do something. I disconnected.
~ Matt Haig
There is no love lost, sir.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Sometimes there is nothing to hold me together.
~ Unknown
Oblivion is purgatorial and grey. He is passably conscious, not asleep but not quite awake either, as if disconnected from everything, unable to move or think or receive input, able to exist.
~ Patrick Ness, More Than This
She turns her head and looks at me, and there is a trustfuless in that look I probably do not deserve. But maybe that is not the point, to deserve it or not, perhaps it just exists, that trust, disconnected from who you are and what you have done, and is not to be measured in any way.
~ Per Petterson
Trauma happens when any experience stuns us like a bolt out of the blue; it overwhelms us, leaving us altered and disconnected
~ Peter A. Levine
Then the music. It's jazz and yet not jazz. There's something euphoric, disconnected about it. Like four instruments that have run amok. But it fools you. Because there is also a strange precision to it. Like a clown act in a circus ring. What takes the greatest precision is that it's supposed to sound like total chaos.
~ Peter Høeg