Quotes About Disconnection

She loathed Christmas, and she loathed the run-up to Christmas, the frenzied shoppers, the tat in the shops, the lights that were put up too early in the streets, the Christmas songs that belted out from overheated shops day after day, the catalogues that poured through her door and into her bin, and above all the insistence on the value of family. Frieda did not value her family and they did not value Frieda. A great gulf lay between them, impassable. The

The automation of wayfinding serves to "inhibit the process of experiencing the physical world by navigation through it." 4 As

rootless affliction.

Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough [with the issues] to throw stones at a policeman. I want to throw stones at the whole world.

Watching in dumb show and from a distance made the whole thing look like some strange strange puppet performance, utterly divorced from me and my life.

They look normal, but they don't feel a goddamn thing, don't know happy from sad from a hole in the ground. They walk around smiling and frowning and pretending to feel shit, and think everyone else out there is pretending, too. No one's real to these guys, you know what I mean? I don't mind telling you, Torvingen, they scare the crap out of me.

Being without electronics for more than a few hours is like being kidnapped by a cult deprogrammer in a cheap brown suit and taken to a fluorescent motel

No other instinct can so satisfy without accomplishing its biological purpose, and no other instinct is so disconnected from its purpose.

Fa male vedere uomini e donne impegnati in una folle corsa verso la terra promessa del guadagno, dove tutto ciò che li circonda – la natura, gli oggetti, gli altri esseri umani – non suscita alcun interesse.

Her ?eyle aram? bozdum art?k. Her ?ey bana dü?man kesildi. Tanr?m, diye dü?ündüm ilk defa. ?lk defa, Tanr?m dedim, b?raks?nlar beni art?k...

Beni pek sevmezlerdi. Fakat, cahil olduklar? için, korkuyla.kar???k bir sayg? beslerlerdi bana. Sözlerimi hiç anlamazlard?; fakat gene de ba?lar?n? sallarlard? durmadan. Ben de ayaklar?m? uzat?r, üstünlü?ümün verdi?i gururla rahat ederdim bu evde. Y?llard?r da, rahat etmek istemedi?im için çok seyrek u?ruyordum onlara.

He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.

I think people who traveled to extrasolar worlds would be on their own—far from politicians and business people, failing economies and tortured ecologies—and far from help. Well out of the shadow of their parent world.

In truth, nothing was the same. She forgot about the stars… and taking notice of the sea. She was no longer filled with all the curiosities of the world and didn't take much notice of anything… other than how heavy… and awkward the bottle had become.

I'm going somewhere where there aren't any women.

Are "people in the world", I wonder, creatures that spend their whole lives greeting each other in stiff, formal patterns, being cautious about each other, then growing tired of each other? I hate meeting people.

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I try not to think about how easily I slipped through a crack in the floor. It's like, if you were walking down the street with your friends, and suddenly one of them slipped down an open manhole, you'd notice, wouldn't you? I certainly would! I mean . . . I think I would. I hope I would. Or maybe we're all so focused straight ahead, people slip away when we're not looking.

Depression is the ultimate state of disconnection, not just between people but between one's mind and one's feelings.

Therefore, you, as human personalities, see yourselves separated from who you really are. It is the clothes you have donned in each incarnation to impersonate who you are.

defines trauma as "any experience which stuns us like a bolt out of the blue; it overwhelms us, leaving us altered and disconnected from our bodies

People certainly lead compartmentalized lives and their friends do not know each other. It's unfortunate.

He was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.

If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name.