Quotes About Disconnect

Everyone is "extremely nice"—and yet I feel entirely alone. ("Abandonitis").

Jack often seemed embarrassed by his remoteness from Pierpont.

He was answered by a long plastic crackle, not a question, but not an instruction either. Softer in tone. Encouragement, maybe. Or reassurance. The one-eyed guy said, "OK, sure," and hung up.

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. It's the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I'm alienated from society.

Hier in Buenos Aires träume ich auf Spanisch von Menschen, die nicht sprechen und mich nicht hören - und immer von der Stadt, wie ich sie früher kannte, niemals, wie sie heute ist.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

All I have to say is, people no longer know how to love nowadays.

What we've got here is a failure to communicate.

Many of you have lost touch with nature, with simple pleasures. No matter how much technology you have, all you crave is the next advance. Your lives have become hollow, meaningless, and unfulfilling.

Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change your life.

All the best bits of a film happen when I'm looking down at my phone. Life, is similar.

I myself am opaque, for some reason. Their eyes cannot see me. Yes, that's it: The world is autistic with respect to me.

School was very easy, it turned out, if you just disconnected your heart.

They were both overwhelmed by the sudden flatness that comes over American travellers in quiet foreign places. No stimuli worked upon them, no voices called them from without, no fragments of their own thoughts came suddenly from the minds of others.

You never saw people anymore, everything was self-service, everybody behind glass windows. And you could not get a real person on the phone. Everywhere you called, a recorded message connected you to another recorded message and then hung up on you.

I feel so isolated that I'm aware of the distance between me and my suit.

I think we are just so far away from the political elite. Whether you are on one side or the other, you're still part of that group.

If you're over 52 years old and you're on Facebook, do us all a favor and log off now.

I was really serious about being an actress. I was playing young female characters and not feeling very connected to them.

It's not always clear whether the filmmaker intends our alienation or is even aware of it.

I'm very comfortable singing myself, first of all. Secondly, there's a certain disconnect when you write the song and you have someone else sing it for you. And it's kind of like a fakeness about it.

I know some people who live this much more insulated life in Los Angeles, where their feet never touch public ground. They walk out of their bathroom, their living room, they get into their garage, their car, and the next thing you know, they're at the valet parking of the restaurant or the store or the office. They're in a bubble the whole time.

I see some kids whose social media is their whole world, and I actually think it's good to disconnect from that.