Quotes About Disconnection

Still, national politics meant little to him: about as much as paper airplanes would mean to the survivor of a plane crash.

Enigszins ontheemd stonden zij bij hen, maar zonder in hen op te gaan, als vetkringen in de bouillon.

It was tough attempting to be social with people who'd rather pretend you didn't exist.

Connie, have you been trying to call me?" No Archie. "Well, my phone has not been ringing all day, and I thought it might have been you.

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.

You must be all a-tingle with excitement.' 'I guess so,' I said, but I did not feel a-tingle. I did not feel a-anything.

Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become aquatinted. It was perpetual estrangement.

She rattled around that huge house, growing more and more used to being on her own, resenting his presence more and more when he was back for the weekends, feeling like he was invading her space. They became like strangers, ships that pass in the night, not able to agree on anything, not having any common ground

Many Palestinians have been living for decades in camps, disconnected from the environment in which they grew up, wallowing in poverty, in neglect, alienation, bitterness, and a deep, unrelenting sense of humiliation.

Your ruling class don't care about what happens to you. What seems like some enormous upset in your community is undetectable from a helicopter or a speeding motorcade. They are pitiless.

Divides between north and south, towns and cities, between urban and rural areas, cause people to experience a gulf in quality of life and future prospects.

How the hell can a person go to work in the morning And come home in the evening and have nothing to say

One of the reasons my ex-husband and I broke up is that he stopped eating my food.

It is very annoying - things have been written by people who didn't know me at all or Princess Diana. They were written by people who never knew me or met me. It did make me angry. I just stopped reading the papers.

The story of 'Mr. Robot' is really about this guy who's lonely - who's alone and feels so disconnected from the world.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

In Mumbai, I feel like a stranger.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

I had nothing to contribute. I played no part. I was on the edge. Different. Alone. Everything around me, grey. It was the same old feeling, back again. I was in the middle of the group but I might as well have been a million miles away from these people.

I just don't feel the Olympic spirit.