Quotes About Disconnection

I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don't pay attention to what's going on outside of jail, because it's all beyond my control.

I'm a product of a fragmented world.

When I see myself on screen, I don't even feel like it's me - it's like it's a completely different person.

In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

In this day and age, technology has overtaken our lives and we are disconnected from reality.

Sometimes you're more involved in controversy, and at other times, you're disconnected.

I disliked everything about the '60s.

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

I have one of those faces that nobody likes.

There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.

Social dislocation can easily breed a reactionary form of nostalgia.

God and I have decided to ignore each other. It's for the best.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

When I got there and picked up the receiver, there was no one on the other end. I clicked the cradle several times

I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass as human. The affections of my friends meant nothing to me, directed, as they were, toward a person who wasn't there. There was nobody home.

After my marriage, I found myself in constant companionship with this almost stranger I found neither agreeable, interesting, nor admirable

Which is to say, I'd been lonely for so long, I'd forgotten that I was. That feeling of disconnection, of grief for something I'd never had, of screaming into a void and knowing no one would hear me---I'd forgotten that was anything other than the basic condition of life.

The apathy, disconnection, or lack of self-esteem that causes students to disengage in school—to stop caring—is not inherent. It is learned behavior.

and no real warmth existed between the two

Husband and wife had little in common

I felt like a man who wakes alone on a deserted island to find that the rest of the world has stolen away in boats in the night. I felt like I was standing on a shore, watching small receding shapes on the horizon. I felt like I had been speaking English, and now I realized everyone else had been speaking a different language entirely. The world was changing. And I didn't want it to.

the phone and the

That's it," Mabel said, getting up. She tossed her napkin on the table. "No. That is not right. I don't know what you just said, but whatever it was, I'm pretty certain it was pure hokum. I don't want to dance. I don't want to hear about your plans for a summer house. I am not your sister. And if I were your sister, I'd have to tell people you'd been adopted as an act of charity. Please, don't get up.

just don't know how we make this work between us," Alma said quietly. Ling blushed with shame. Sex. It was about sex, or the lack thereof. From the corner of her eye, she watched as Alma laced her beautiful fingers and placed them in her lap. And then Ling forced herself to keep her gaze on the man across the street sweeping his patch of sidewalk. Ling watched the bristles pushing against the wilted flowers and felt as if she, too, were being brushed into the gutter.