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Quotes About Disconnection

You're convinced everything would be fine if we lived together. If only we could. But you live in a world I don't recognize. What a halcyon glow our childhood must have for you.
~ Yūko Tsushima
Since that time, I've had many similar moments, and I can never hear the words "family" and "home" without feeling that they sound strange, never simply hear them and let them go. When I stop to examine them, though, the words seem hollow, seem to rattle at my feet like empty cans.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
All the eyes flew away from me like mayflies, I couldn't catch a single one
~ Y?ko Tawada
I looked her up and down. She wouldn't meet my eyes. I didn't recognize her anymore. She was nothing like the image of her I had in my head. Her features meant nothing to me; she was someone else.
~ Yasmina Khadra
People feel politics isn't about their lives.
~ David Miliband
I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.
~ David Nicholls
Last night they had said and done all those things, and now they were like strangers in a bus queue. The mistake she had made was to fall asleep and break the spell.
~ David Nicholls
Sometimes I come to hate people because they can't see where I am. I've gone empty, completely empty and all they see is the visual form: my arms and legs, my face, my height and posture, the sounds that come from my throat. But I'm fucking empty. The person I was just one year ago no longer exists, drifts spinning slowly into the ether somewhere way back there.
~ David Wojnarowicz
I'm getting closer to the coast and realize how much I hate arriving at a destination. Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.
~ David Wojnarowicz
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
~ Deb Caletti
For three weeks I was in a state of slippage, a gap widening between me and my usual self.
~ Jay Griffiths
I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn't really care.
~ Jean Rhys
Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.
~ Jean Webster
Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal. I'm quite sure most people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake it all. I fake it very well, and the feelings are never there.
~ Jeff Lindsay
I did not like this feeling of having feelings.
~ Jeff Lindsay
I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it." --Dexter
~ Jeff Lindsay
There is no one with me. I am all by myself. The trees are not trees the birds are not birds and I am not me but just something that has been walking for a very long time . . .
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Llevada por Francisco Rosas, Julia salió del atrio, sin oír
~ Elena Garro
Life? I no longer care to live. I am alone. But I wanted to come back to warn you. Only no one is listening to me …
~ Elie Wiesel
I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
He was like a star in the night sky above and she but a sparrow. No matter how high she might try to fly, she'd never reach him.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
Now I feel I was inserted into life exactly not to do that. For I have been robbed of everything that made me social
~ Alice Notley
I don't reside on your planet. I have never lived.
~ Alice Notley
No one is kind to me; no one asks me what's wrong.
~ Alice Notley