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Quotes About Disorientation

At four-twenty every morning I wake and have no idea where or who I am.
~ James Lee Burke
When I left university, I idled around without focus for much too long.
~ Kevin McCloud
We were shooting 'Hot Fuzz' in my hometown of Wells, Somerset, and I remember looking at the dailies and going, 'Wait, there's a Starbucks in the shot. I don't remember that being there!' We had to digitally remove it; the same thing happened with a McDonald's in another scene. I had this sensation of, 'What's going on here? Where am I?'
~ Edgar Wright
I didn't enjoy my college life in Noida much because I was quite disoriented there, since I was staying away from my family.
~ Kratika Sengar
When we grieve, we naturally allow ourselves to feel the anger, hurt, disorientation, and sadness that are a part of processing pain. As we grieve, we let go of some of our hypervigilance. When we understand that feeling these feelings are part of the healing process, and that by feeling them we can allow them to dissipate, we begin to see light at the end of the tunnel.
~ Tian Dayton
The real issue is that every line is a broken line. You retrace your steps and nothing is familiar. So you turn around to come back only now you've got the same problem going the other way. Every worldline is discrete and the caesura ford a void that is bottomless. Every step traverses death.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Since the end of the postwar economic boom, certain strategies have been intensified to stimulate consumption, especially strategies aimed at American youth that project sexual activity as instant fulfillment and violence as the locus of machismo identity. This market activity has contributed greatly to the disorientation and confusion of American youth, and those with less education and fewer opportunities bear the brunt of this cultural chaos.
~ Cornel West
Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. It is a strange movie with no plot and no beginning. The movie is in black and white, and grainy. Sometimes the camera moves in so close that you can't tell what is going on and you just listen to the sounds and guess.
~ Walter Dean Myers
Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. It is a strange movie with no plot and no beginning. The movie is in black and white, and grainy.
~ Walter Dean Myers
Now it was growing late again, and cooler, which the nurse found disorienting. It felt as though her entire life had been lived from dusk to dawn ever since she learned of Phillip, only tiptoeing around the edges of sunset or sunrise, and sleeping or traveling all day.
~ Cherie Priest
So basically your plan is to flail about helplessly.
~ Harlan Coben
I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.
~ Haruki Murakami
I was suffering from culture shock before the phrase was coined
~ Lee Kuan Yew
The first rule is about bewilderment," the author said.
~ Lemony Snicket
The whole city was a compass. How could anyone ever have gotten so hopelessly lost here?
~ James Sallis
How did I get so lost? Mother
~ Janet Fitch
The first 6 hours of being in orbit were a little difficult on my stomach. I think things just didn't know where to go!
~ Sunita Williams
I'd like to have a perfect sense of direction. I could get lost with a GPS strapped to my arm.
~ Lisa Graff
La mobilità sociale ha aperto a tutti la possibilità di aspirare a qualsiasi cosa, ma con ciò nessuno è più "predestinato" a nulla. È forse per questo che la gente è sempre più disorientata e incerta sul senso della propria vita.
~ Tiziano Terzani
It's weird when you wake of from a bad dream and everything is still bad.
~ Todd Strasser
you ever have that feeling when you step down onto a footstep that isn't there?
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Rachel tried to slap Mrs. Samuels when she said this, but she wasn't really sure where her face was and she missed, terribly.
~ Daniel Wallace
the moment, Rydell decided he knew for a fact his ass was lost. Just plain lost.
~ William Gibson
History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered.
~ China Mieville