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Quotes About Disconnection

I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?
~ Henry Rollins
I think Twitter is kind of boring, to be honest. To me, it's not even real life.
~ Jen Kirkman
I never went dancing again.
~ Tilly Dunn, Exit Stage Left
One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him.
~ Ryan Lilly
Is it just me or am I the only person that didn't receive an invitation to the Grand Ball so many call life?
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
the English mode of existence in which everybody acts as if everybody else ( with few, or no exceptions ) was either an enemy or a bore.
~ John Stuart Mill
The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church.
~ John Sweeney
One great reason why the rich in general have so little sympathy for the poor is because they so seldom visit them. Hence it is that one part of the world does not know what the other suffers. Many of them do not know, because they do not care to know: they keep out of the way of knowing it – and then plead their voluntary ignorance as an excuse for their hardness of heart.
~ John Wesley
He opened his front door and heard the TV from the living room. He could see his parents sitting side by side, staring at the screen. He didn't bother to say hello. His parents generally didn't care whether he was home or not. From the hallway Gavin stared at them for a minute, shaking his head in disbelief. They were his parents. They were supposed to be on his side.
~ John Whitman
But we were never really - together. Even when we made love.
~ John Williams
People are not more connected, despite the billions in ads from the IT companies. Why call it community? It's just technology. The machines are connected, not the people.
~ John Zerzan
Ximena walks through the emotionless atmosphere found only in new houses.
~ Elizabeth Tallent
We're not sitting with those people. We never saw them before in our lives.
~ Ellen Feldman
Sometimes we have to run away from ourselves in order to find ourselves.
~ Ellen Sussman
A fit encomium for marital bliss," Beaumont said, putting down his knife and fork. "Dancing to a tune one neither likes nor understands, with a partner who thinks you a cadaver.
~ Eloisa James
Le même sentiment d'inappartenance, de jeu inutile, où que j'aille : je feins de m'intéresser à ce qui ne m'importe guère, je me trémousse par automatisme ou par charité, sans jamais être dans le coup, sans jamais être quelque part. Ce qui m'attire est ailleurs, et cet ailleurs je ne sais ce qu'il est.
~ Emil Cioran
Pe românii de la Paris evit cît pot s?-i v?d: în genere sunt intriganÅ£i ÅŸi r?spîndesc zvonuri false. In plus, nu sunt de nici un folos penici un plan
~ Emil Cioran
Teama ce se naÅŸte "din senin"... Singura,de altfel,ÅŸi cea mai întunecat?.Ea este echivoc? asemenea unei înmuguriri sumbre- ÅŸi genereaz? o muzic? de flaut trist ÅŸi aiurit.În camere t?cute de hotel sau pe str?zi înguste ale unui oraÅŸ vechi ea creÅŸte ÅŸi ne verific? dezr?d?cinarea.
~ Emil Cioran
No se puede estar menos hecho para la tierra que yo. Pertenezco a otro mundo, que es tanto como decir que soy de un submundo.
~ Emil Cioran
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 what that elsewhere is.
~ Emil Cioran
Gdziekolwiek si? rusz? - to samo odczucie nieprzynale?no?ci, bezu?ytecznej gry. Udaj? zainteresowanie czym?, co mnie zupe?nie nie obchodzi, kr?c? si? tu i tam, ale nigdy nie jestem "w ?rodku", w ?adnym okre?lonym miejscu. To, co mnie przyci?ga, znajduje si? gdzie? indziej, czym za? owo "gdzie indziej" jest - nie wiem.
~ Emil M. Cioran
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.
~ Emil M. Cioran
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?
~ Emilio Estevez
Alas! we cannot understand each other on any point. We are separated by an abyss. You are on the side of darkness, while I—I live in the light, the true Light!
~ balzac honore de viii