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Quotes About Disconnection

I don't love being on the road.
~ Matt Berninger
I think the audience for Limp Bizkit is probably not going to be particularly interested in what we're doing. I don't think they'll find much that satisfies them in what we do.
~ Walter Becker
Banks felt more alone and further away for having just talked to Sophia than he had before her call. But it was always like that - the telephone might bring you together for a few moments, but there's nothing like it for emphasising distance.
~ Peter Robinson
yet the world between them was wide.
~ Philip José Farmer
You read much, Bernie?' 'More and more,' I admitted. 'And for me it's like the French Foreign Legion. I do it to forget. Myself, I think.
~ Philip Kerr
Shakespeare didn't work at all for me.
~ Charles Bukowski
'Community,' that loaded word so beloved of politicians, is simply not a reality in most people's lives. It's normal for us to be cut off from each other.
~ John Lanchester
He had fled the claustrophobic confines of his family. He'd successfully kept Jan Burres and Wayne Westerberg at arm's length, flitting out of their lives before anything was expected of him. And now he'd slipped painlessly out of Ron Franz's life as well.
~ Jon Krakauer
We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.
~ Jon Krakauer
She reassembled her deranged silent treatment of the whole of the twentieth century, but it quit before she could fire it.
~ Jonathan Lethem
Sometimes one simply wants to disappear.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
The inside of life became far smaller than the outside, creating a cavity, an emptiness.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I do not love famous nightclubs. They make me feel very cheerless and abandoned. Am I applying that word correctly? Abandoned?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I felt as if I were watching myself from above, unable to comprehend the happiness of the people around me.
~ Adrienne Brodeur
We cut the wires, find ourselves in free-fall, as if our true home were the undimensional solitudes, the rift in the Great Nebula.
~ Adrienne Rich
When 'Paul's Boutique' came out, I was one of the fans that didn't get it.
~ Eminem
I don't really pay attention to much online.
~ Farrah Abraham
There's something odd about working 24/7, being consumed with everything that's happening in Iraq, and then coming back to the country that ordered you over there only to realize that a lot of Americans are not really paying attention.
~ Phil Klay
I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn't anymore.
~ Pooh
He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us.
~ Rabih Alameddine
but I suspect he feels that if he gave his attention to a book and lost himself in it, he might never be found again, and the world he is trying to hold on to might spin out of his control.
~ Rachel Cusk
The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment.
~ Brene Brown
Around 1978, I got really, really sick of waking up in hotel rooms when I don't know where I am.
~ Eric Carmen
I haven't watched one second of 'First Take' since I walked off that set.
~ Skip Bayless