Quotes About Disconnection

Isa. xliii. 22, "Thou hast not called upon me, thou hast been weary of me.

Watson didn't know what hit him. The last thing he sent through his BrainPal channel was a wash of emotion that could best be described as disoriented puzzlement, the mild surprise of someone who knows he's seeing something he wasn't expecting but hasn't figured out what it is. Then his connection was cut off, like a data feed suddenly unexpectedly shut down.

She stands by the edge of the bed, baggy in nakedness, and goes off into the bathroom to do her duty. There's that in women repels him: handle themselves like an old envelope. Tubes into tubes, wash away men's dirt—insulting, really. Faucets cry. The more awake he gets the more depressed he is. From deep in the pillow he stares at the horizontal strip of stained-glass church window that shows beneath the window shade. Its childish brightness comes from years away.

I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

Forgive me for not being there, my mind has found a place called else where.

He said it hit him travelling one time in the year or so before he met my mother. Whatever country of the world it was, the poor were starting to look alike, live alike, eat alike, and dress alike in the same kind of clothes all made in the same part of China. To him, it was a sign that the people had got severed from the land.

Improvvisamente sentì la gola arsa e la propria solitudine, senza che le due cose avessero un legame reciproco.

He never realized how noisy American silence was until all the gadgets died.

If one by one we counted people out

There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio - I don't know that guy.

Being young is all about wanting to connect with someone but feeling too disconnected to actually do so.

I just don't fit in. It seems like everyone else is sitting on the FM radio, knowing exactly what they want. Meanwhile, I'm the lost one, searching on the AM radio for something that'll never be found.

Mia: Why did you leave? Sam: What do you mean, 'why did I leave'? Mia: Well, if I was lost in the forest with someone who looked like that, I'd want to stay lost Sam: I wasn't lost Mia: Whatever

creen en Dios sólo porque ignoran que hace mucho tiempo que Dios ha dejado de creer en ellos.

For Maria had given up praying a long time ago so that God would not know where she was.

After several minutes of utterly dull conversation I began to think of her not as a woman but as a human, then not as a human but as an animal, then not as an animal but as a source of high-grade protein.

He's like a man with a fork, in a world of soup. (about his brother Liam)

We're too different now. We want different things. And this?" I say nodding at our hands. "All this managed to prove is that you are extremely good at turning me off

I suddenly feel left out of a future that isn't even going to happen.

Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

Feeling disconnected from their peers, they were also internally disconnected from their own humanity. It seems clear that violent video games can promote derealization in a susceptible person. For disaffected adolescents who may have undetected and untreated dissociative symptoms, spending hours and hours playing these games in isolation can be dangerous.

Derealization—A feeling that one's surroundings are strange or unreal. Often involves previously familiar people.