Quotes About Disconnection

Elephants don't know anything about the world of ants; the peaks of mountains are oblivious of what is happening on the plains!

Little people irritate me. I felt like this monstrous giant alongside them.

She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly stunned and stunted, far from everything.

He left because the world is not made to accommodate people like him.

THIS will show her true colors! Thus, not even a call. But that's par for the course with Dina! She didn't even send a card or visit when he was sick."OK! Magazine: Lindsay's Grandfather Dies (August 28, 2008)1

Traumatizing agents include the rise of mass culture and the subsequent diminishing of the individual soul, the spread of rampant materialism, and the rise of "connective" technologies that contribute to deep disconnections while "linking" people at surface levels of life.

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In this apartment, as in his whole life now, he knew he would always feel as though he were staying in a hotel.

We are a society of disconnected people longing for connections.

South Central Los Angeles, for example, is a data and media black hole, without local cable programming or links to major data systems. Just as it became a housing-and-jobs ghetto in the postwar period, it is now evolving into an off-net electronic ghetto.

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

But she could not imagine clinging to Japan, which was like a beloved stepmother who refused to love you,

Her complaint about her husband was not that he was boring or that he wasn't home enough. Nori was not a bad person. It was just that she felt like she had no clear sense of him after nineteen years of marriage, and she doubted that she ever would.

Nori was not a bad person. It was just that she felt like she had no clear sense of him after nineteen years of marriage, and she doubted that she ever would. He didn't seem to need her except to be a wife in name and a mother to his children. For Nori, this was enough.

We don't have intercourse anymore. I'm not complaining, it's my own fault. I lie there beside him and try to send signals to my vagina, but it's like trying to get cable channels on a Tv that doesn't have cable. My mind requests sex, but my vagina is just waiting for the next time it has to pee. It thinks its whole job in life is to pee.

Loneliness is a narcissistic sociopathy of infantility in which you feel a complete mental disconnection from the genitals, a complete sense of humility that deprives you of any kind of fear.

moments later, but she stayed far away from

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

He felt like a bottle that is being slowly filled with warm, dirty warter.

Maybe what I want is to cut all ties with everybody. The thread or something that keeps me connected to the world, the worthless proof that I exist.

I had an uncomfortable feeling I sometimes get in conversation with another person, as if the fundamental part of myself had evaporated-not in the sense of being gone, but as if it has undergone a phase transition and is hovering over my actual body as a vapor. That's the best I can describe it, as if my consciousness and my physical person are suddenly separated.

You become like a ghost in your own life

Nobody tells you, when you're young, what it will be like." "What is it like?" "You become like a ghost in your own life.