Quotes About Disorientation

Everyone has an opinion. And yet we feel more lost and afraid than ever

You make me come alive- too alive. It's breathless, like a disaster. Ravishing, like crossing over into the desert and losing your bearings. Nothing's the same again.

If I told you Ive worked hard to get where I'm at, I'd be lying, because I have no idea where I am right now.

amor es más seguro cuando nos toma de sorpresa e incluso desorienta a la costumbre.

Peter was lost. More than lost, really. Spectacularly, hopelessly, "tell the search party not to get their hopes up" lost. If there was a contest for getting lost being held at that moment, Peter wouldn't win because he wouldn't be able to find it. That's how lost he was.

Okay, well I think the programme is like being screamed at for an hour by a drunk with a strobe-light, but like I said--

Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.

Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.

And suddenly I feel weak, like every question in my head has collided against each other and won't let me think.

If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's an initial uprush of relief at first, then-for me, anyway- a profound dislocation. My old assumptions about how the world works are buried, yet my new ones aren't yet operational.There's been a death of sorts, but without a few days in hell, no resurrection is possible.

I would like to be able to say that I threw myself into the spirit of it all, but the truth is, I still felt a bit dazed. A bit abstracted. It's going to take time, I guess. If you've thought in a certain way for many years, if you've had a picture in your mind of how things are and that picture is suddenly shown to be faulty, well, it stands to reason that it will take a while to adjust. And during that time, you're bound to feel … disconnected

A deep, dreamless nothing, and now – thanks to the ring of a phone alarm – she was awake and didn't know where she was.

taking a roundabout route in an effort to disorient the Amorite.

The transatlantic transport of all of these various Africans to the Americas qualifies as the quintessential moment of transfiguration, the height of human alienation and disorientation.

Cristóbal Colón fue una gran decepción. Cuando zarpó no tenía ni idea de adónde iba y cuando llegó no tenía ni idea de dónde estaba. Si quieres joder a los nativos, es mucho mejor quedarse en casa.

Yaz and Meyer didn't know whether to shit once, twice, go blind, or die – though the latter

How disorienting and isolating immortality must be, and how strong he must be to weather it.

Too hot to wonder why your head throbbed and the world spun slowly around you.

true, they abandon faith in everything else they have learned. Deprived of the customary supports that cultural values had given them, they flounder in a morass of anxiety and apathy.

And still go down. Now ladder-mouth; and the precipitous fear, uncertain rungs down into after-night. "This is the place. Away from this my life I am indeed Adam unparadiz'd. Some fools call this the Black Hole of Calcutta, I don't know how they ever get to Congress.

For the earth is filled with violence, and every living thing has lost its way.

They were slowing down. The noise of the rope as they reached the full extent of the jump sounded like the ricochet crack of the sail on a tall ship. And now they were accelerating again, up, up and suddenly they were hanging suspended: weightless in space. No up or down. The feeling of disorientation absolute.

The experiment suggested a strong correlation "between the number of links and disorientation or cognitive overload," wrote Zhu.

they have become notable features of the heart of modern darkness: no givens, no rules and no limits.