Quotes About Disconnection

I don't recognize my people anymore. I feel Somalia is lost. There is no Somalia. It is just a name.

Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.

He didn't even attempt to smile and I knew then that I had lost him.

There is no reason to be in touch with you I m reduced to sub existence

One day I finally decided, that there is no point sharing my feelings, You don't enjoy...

If others neither have goods we want nor can perform services we need, we make sure that they are at a safe distance and close ourselves off from them so that their emaciated and tortured bodies can make no inordinate claims on us.

You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.

I'd had books published in foreign languages. I'd had many addresses over the years. But you can touch everything and be connected to nothing.

It seems that as everyone was coming together everyone was also moving apart.

One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope.

I left the apartment without even bothering to close the door behind me. Once outside, I faced a world of buildings and faces that seemed strange and distant. I started to walk aimlessly, oblivious to the cold and the rain-filled wind that was starting to lash the town with the breath of a curse.

Lark did not know how her parents would behave in public. They never came to anything, even teacher conferences. They had basically skipped Lark's life. She didn't mind. She had made her own.

She was afraid because in the war they would not include her, and because the world seemed somehow separate from herself.

hundreds of butts in piles on the ground to mark the spot, their lives sucked out of them by their users in panicked distressed frenzy, their souls floating around the insides of lungs while their outsides were dropped, stamped on and deserted

Imagine you had a friend who was there for you all the time and you were there for them, but they stopped being there for you as much as they used to which you can understand a little because people have things to do, but then they're around less and less no matter how much you try to reach out to them. Then suddenly one day-nothing-they're gone

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.

Your government is no longer mine.

Talking to young people gets us nowhere, I thought, and anyone who asserts the contrary is a hypocrite, for young people have nothing to say to their elders, to old people—that's the truth. What the young have to say to the old is of absolutely no interest, none whatever, I thought, and to assert the contrary is gross hypocrisy.

There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us.

Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.

They've been married for ten years and no trace of love has rubbed off, not a trace. I wouldn't know what to do with a man like that. I wouldn't know what to do with a man who did more than show up for meals. I wonder where she found him.

He held no aspirations of ever being anything to them

If someone doesn't care about himself, you begin to lose interest after a while.

We feed on the world in increasingly desperate attempts to compensate for feelings of incompleteness, separation, and alienation. This is a sorry way to live.