Quotes About Fragmentation

Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole.

So when we make contact with the domain of being in the meditation practice, we are already, in a profound sense, beyond the scarring, beyond the isolation and fragmentation and suffering we may be experiencing.

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

I wish we would all just fall apart so I wouldn't have to listen to the downfall happen, so slowly, so painfully.

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.

Maybe that's what living in America does to you: it spreads you into far distances until you're just little bits rolling apart.

Americans are now in disarray

You could have a family of one and still drive them apart.

The half is greater than the whole Hesiod, ca. 700 BC

From the outside a person sees your physical form, sees that you are a unified mass of atoms and cells. Yet inside you feel like a Big Bang has happened. You feel lost, disintegrated, spread across the universe amid infinite dark space.

The world was becoming faster and louder, and the social systems were becoming as chaotic and fragmented as jazz scores.

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.

It is harder for women, perhaps to be 'one-pointed,' much harder for them to clear space around whatever it is they want to do beyond household chores and family life. Their lives are fragmented... the cry not so much for a 'a room of one's own' as time of one's own. Conflict become acute, whatever it may be about, when there is no margin left on any day in which to try at least to resolve it.

The mind plays tricks on itself in order to stay in one piece.

I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.

Agora, eu via o meu país como uma dessas baleias que vêm agonizar na praia. A morte nem sucedera e já as facas lhe roubavam pedaços, cada um tentando o mais para si

Multidisciplinary is just us applying a fractured mentality onto something that's actually whole.

I am forced to admit that I am, to them, nothing but a series of destinations with no meaningful expanses in between.

Bu an?n hüzün verici, dramatik bir an oldu?unu biliyor, ama kendi fazla bir ?ey hissedemiyordu. Herkesin içinde k?r?lan yerin sahibinden götürdü?ü ?eyler farkl?yd?.

Logic is pixels of reality. They are getting smaller and smaller.

life divides us into smaller and smaller pieces as we go, until each piece seems too small to do anything as worthwhile with it as we'd like

We're still a long way from knowing where our clicks will lead us. But it's clear that two of the hopes most dear to the Internet optimists—that the Web will create a more bountiful culture and that it will promote greater harmony and understanding—should be treated with skepticism. Cultural impoverishment and social fragmentation seem equally likely outcomes.

Even the most apparently simple statement is subject to fission or fissure.