Quotes About Disconnection

At the end of an evening, her women friends would hug her, or a friend's husband might slip his arm around her waist to kiss her, just a little too suggestively, and the coldness in her would respond, I don't give a damn if I ever see any of you again.

I felt... numb wasn't the right word. My mouth was too dry. My heart was beating too fast. I hurt, but it felt like I was hurting from a distance.

I was everyone's problem and nobody's.

I punch on the radio, but all I get is country music and static, and I don't know which is worse.

The man out on the street was something without a human nature or a personality of its own. He was on a stage. The street was another world.

The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don't know where that elsewhere is.

When they got back into the carriage they felt greater strangers than before.

Ahora sí que tú y yo estamos más lejos uno del otro que dos estrellas de diferentes galaxias.

And it's amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make.

Ich höre mir das nicht länger an. Jede Sekunde, die ich mit dir spreche, ist eine verlorene Sekunde. Da blickte Root ihm direkt in die Augen. Das macht dann, alles in allem, gut sechshundert verlorene Jahre, was, mein Freund ?

We disconnected. And I wondered if we had ever truly connected.

If you disattend to your body (Step 1), this creates a disconnection within your body and between your body and the environment (Step 2), promoting disregulation in the body (Step 3), which would be measured as disorder in the system (Step 4), and be experienced as disease (Step 5).

In a word, connection leads to order and ease; disconnection leads to disorder and disease.

The science is clear. Social disconnection stimulates our brain's pain pathways and our stress response systems, making it more likely we'll seek out unhealthy sources of dopamine.

I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.

While his life was impeccable on the surface, he felt he was behind glass; moving through the world in a separate compartment, touching no one else.

But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.

My life is actually empty, so I feel like I'm lying to everyone by pretending to be happy on the outside.

Believe me, I do not go to Delhi, I do not know anybody in Delhi.

It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.

I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.