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Quotes About Disconnection

i do not give a sh*t, the toilet miss me now
~ Mohlalefi j motsima
Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.
~ Victor Hugo
Long ago I used to mutter (as you probably do), "Very interesting," and cast a desperate glance around for the punch-bowl. This banal comment fools no one, least of all the artist, and you quickly find you have lost a friend and alienated a roomful of people, all of whom are pretending they like the pictures with a grim kind of appreciation.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Wy??czy?em telewizor, w którym cywile i wojskowi czekali na kogo? i nie mogli si? doczeka?.
~ Tadeusz Konwicki
The hunter that travels out into the woods is lost to the world, yet finds himself.
~ Tags: hunting
My mind is done for the night, shorted out; there's nothing left but a dial tone.
~ Tana French
Don't be stupid and awkward," the dolphin says. "You want to walk together or not?" "You are a stupid piece of shit. Go away from me." The dolphin goes into the center of a circular clothing rack and quietly cries.
~ Tao Lin
The reason we feel alienated is because the society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation.
~ Tao Lin
Ciò che doveva risultare familiare era remoto, e quel che avrebbe dovuto essere estraneo sembrava invece a portata di mano.
~ Ted Chiang
fissiparous
~ Ted Widmer
In the separation of the human species from nature, life goes awry.
~ Michael Frome
I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane.
~ Faith Ford
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
~ Alexander Theroux
The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.
~ Rollo May
You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
~ Walker Percy
It breaks the metaphor. The avatar is not acting like a real body. It reminds all The Black Sun's patrons that they are living in a fantasy world. People hate to be reminded of this.
~ Neal Stephenson
Computers are good, but they isolate the user and the information. People forget what they can't see.
~ Nelson DeMille
Rising to his feet he said, 'If the heir to the throne has been assassinated, well, first of all we know nothing for certain, and secondly, it doesn't concern us in the least.'…
~ Niall Ferguson
In another place, in another time, she would have felt the majesty of the beauty around her, but as she stood on the beach, she realized that she didn't feel anything at all. In a way, she felt as if she weren't really here, as if the whole thing was nothing but a dream.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I don't get involved with the music scene any more. It's just alien to me.
~ Shaun Ryder
I wasn't present for my own life for a long time. I wasn't there; I wasn't in my relationships; I wasn't in my band; I wasn't in my soul - I was disconnected from all of it. I would let myself live in a miserable situation forever, mostly of my own making. I made my own misery and made the people around me miserable.
~ John Rzeznik
Rhonda looked like she'd been sent for and couldn't come, got there and wasn't wanted.
~ Chris Offutt
At that catastrophic moment, the first two people ever created died in spirit, became sickened in body and soul, experienced a crippling sense of shame, and disconnected from each other and God. Life on earth went from being heavenly to being hellish.
~ Chris Thurman
I'm sorry. I never think to check my messages and I don't have a clue where that cell phone is.' She looked around as if she might find it in the flower bed.
~ Christine Feehan