Quotes About Disconnection

I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.

I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in Siberia. It is completely cut off from the rest of the world.

We didn't really like each other, Simon and I, because we didn't understand each other. We're very, very, very different people from very different lives.

wrote him off the day he left and so did Ellen and

The longer partners feel disconnected, the more negative their interactions become

Which strategy we adopt when we feel disconnected—becoming demanding and critical or withdrawing and shutting down—partly reflects our natural temperament, but mostly it is dictated by the lessons we learn in the key attachment relationships of our past and present.

I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all. I like watching people, but I don't like talking to them, dealing with them, pleasing them, or offending them. I am tired.

I flipped off the television - both ways.

Don't think I'm not haunted knowing that I might be missing out on things that I'd much prefer not to be missing out on. I am haunted , Betsy. You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. It's the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I'm alienated from society.

Where does this idea of greater connection come from? I've never in my life felt more disconnected. It's like how the rich get richer. The connected get more connected while the disconnected get more disconnected. No thanks, man, I can't do it. The world was a sufficient trial, Betsy, before Facebook.

We need to be able to get wired up without overheating, and disconnect without going cold.

Withdrawal is an essential feature of depression, and once withdrawn a person can grow steadily more awkward in company.

The woman regarded him. Her hands shook. She was really very drunk. "I know everybody in this room," she said. "And you know what I see when I look at them? I don't see anybody I know.

Unacknowledged privilege and the subtle or blatant use of power over others inevitably create division, anger, disempowerment, depression, shame, and disconnection.

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.

I'm a bit of a Luddite and I hate the internet.

Girls are like phones. We love to be held, talked too but if you press the wrong button you'll be disconnected!

Come on, make it easy, say I never mattered

Ninguno de ellos me miraba y yo viajaba como un traicionero." p. 232

Ce soir, ils te sont étrangers et sont étrangers l'un à l'autre ; l'atmosphère est grise : des grumeaux dans un liquide sale ; tout est raté. Et tu passes ta nuit avec ce poids sur le cÅ"ur, complètement dégoûté d'eux. Le lendemain matin, tu les trouves frais et réussis comme une pâtisserie bien faite. (p. 23)

My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. […]. I'm two, and both keep their distance — Siamese twins that aren't attached.

În secolul XX, dragostea e un telefon care nu sun?.

Estaba tan lejos de tus preocupaciones que te evadías no por el terror, sino por el fastidio.