Quotes About Disconnection

Our ancestors recognized the importance of connectedness and the toxicity of exclusion. The history of the "civilized" world, on the other hand, is filled with policies and practices that favored disconnection and marginalization—that destroyed family, community, and culture.

colonization intentionally fragments families, community cohesion, and cultures, and that disconnection is at the heart of trauma.

Disconnection is disease.

There was no time for nurturing. I was always trying not to bother her or worry her. My mother felt distant, cold to the needs of this little girl. All of the energy went to keeping her head above water, surviving. I always felt like a burden, an "extra mouth to feed." I rarely remember feeling loved. From as early as I can remember, I knew I was on my own.

I am alienating, alienated and socially homeless . . . I am seven years old.

but they'd have a cheap laptop and some big chunk of the Library, and they'd crouch under a culvert with it, and peck around on it and fly around in it and read stuff and annotate it and hypertext it, and then they'd come up with some pathetic, shattered, crank, loony, paranoid theory as to what the hell had happened to them and their planet…. It almost beat drugs for turning smart people into human wreckage.

I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

Later, when I travelled to other parts of the world and saw numerous cities and glittering lights and the vitality of those crowds of people, I was struck with disappointment and disgust at how they had all abandoned us and looked the other way.

And there was something I've since noticed over the years—the mountain range that separates the naked from the clothed man. Two men on one passport.

I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.

I couldn't really relate much to my younger sister, because she was born in 1992, and I was born in 1986. And then my older sister, we just didn't get on that much. Although we bonded over hating our stepdad.

I'm just out of touch with new music in general, and I only know about it if I'm hanging out with someone that knows about it, or I catch it on YouTube.

Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands... Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.

I'd tell you to go to hell but I don't want to see you again.

I'm alienated from this world because its weird and I don't want to be a part of it. I want to be part of the people that are more imaginative and crazy.

I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?

I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.

Didja ever get one of them girls who just wants to watch the show?

Uneasily, I looked on the desk for a note or other evidence of her last time in the shop. But there was nothing, and the store telephone had no blinking lights promising messages, because the power was off.

but the effects of abandonment apply to all types of loss and disconnection, whether it's loss of a job, a dream, or a friend. It may be a loss of one's home, health, or sense of purpose. Abandonment is a psychobiological process.

I am so appalled by the whole social media thing. I don't get it; it doesn't appeal to me. Neither does a computer or working on a laptop.

I can't go out socially. I never go to soap awards now. I don't recognize people I know and they would think that I was snubbing them.