Quotes About Disconnection

After four years at college, nobody was anybody she knew.

Aquí nos encontramos básicamente con una soñadora, una persona sin contacto con la realidad. Cuando saltó, probablemente se figuraba que volaría

As the long minutes of radio silence began, the three astronauts were disconnected from the rest of humanity in a way that no one ever had been before.

Sometimes I felt lonely because I pushed people away for so long that I honestly didn't have many close connections left. I was physically isolated and disconnected from the world. Sometimes I felt lonely in a crowded room. This kind of loneliness pierced my soul and ached to the core. I not only felt disconnected from the world, but I also felt like no one ever loved me. Intellectually, I knew that people did, but I still felt that way.

room and refused to return to the table, even

Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary.

We live in a silent explosion, Everything is flying away from everything else... flying away... flying away...

Her enthusiasm, her optimism, her hope? They were all so far from where he was.

You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.

My mind feels like a beehive without the buzz.

There is a huge gap between what students want for their future and what their schools are offering.

When 'Mama's Family' was canceled, I was stunned that the phone didn't ring anymore.

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

You don't dig me, I don't understand what it is, I had my car reupholstered.

When in a foreign country, he thought, you are behind a fence, or in a cell - everything is going on around you but you are not quite part of it. You open your mouth, and you sound like a child; you know that you are someone else, but you cannot explain it.

In human affairs, the distance between the leaders and the average is a constant.

But at least he can still see the lights below us. Although maybe for him it doesn't matter.

But what I've done, he thought; that's become alien to me. In fact everything about me has become unnatural; I've become an unnatural self.

I'm so drunk my head doesn't even need my neck.

I didn't know how Douglas and Mickey felt about the news, but the Earth seemed so far away now it didn't matter anymore. Maybe that was the wrong way to feel, but that's what I felt anyway.

Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? why do we feel we need to disconnect in order to connect? If I wrote Dear Sofia or Dear Boomer or Dear Lily's Great-Aunt at the top of this postcard, wouldn't that change the words that followed? Of course it would. But the question is: When I wrote Dear Lily, was that just a version of Dear Myself? I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too

Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect?