Quotes About Disconnect

Cell phones do not belong in fiction, an editor once scolded in the margin of one of my manuscripts, and ever since - more than two decades now - I have wondered at the disconnect between tech-filled life and techless story.

How many divorces are caused by the word nothing? I think this would be a very interesting statistic.

My shoulders hunch even harder. I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as Dandelion seeds - no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff.

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages. Most of the time, I feel better and happier and I learn more when I'm not on my phone, all day, or a computer, or an iPad.

Clearly, she hadn't heard of the two words 'social' and 'life'.

...we spend more time gazing at luminous screens than into the eyes of our loved ones.

We really haven't known each other very well these last few years, have we?" She looked away and said uncomfortably, "Well—I suppose not.

It was a nightmare I could never really define, to have so many people packed around me and not be able to communicate with any of them unless they felt like it.

Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract;

There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope.

As much as I love the written word, I am aware of the ways this love removes me from the world.

I always felt as if I were on an island. There were people around me, but they weren't really with me.

I don't go to movies, I don't own a television, I don't buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I'm not really aware of popular culture.

Old beach houses sometimes don't have TVs, or you don't get cellphone reception.

In 2004, when I started recording my first CD, I was coming right out of yeshiva. So I had spent two years completely immersed in the Hasidic culture, disconnected completely from the secular world - movies, music, people.

I think it's kind of a scary time we're getting into - like, when you're hanging out with people, they'd rather be on the phone than talk to you.

After 'Sea Hawks,' television became very strange for me, I could not relate to the stories that were being shown on TV.

I feel like there is a real lack of empathy - not just in American society, it's definitely happening in Britain as well - and it's heartbreaking that people can see something and not feel it.

When I go on a hike, I leave my phone in the car.

Quelque chose se cassait, quelque chose s'est cassé. Tu ne te sens plus - comment dire? - soutenu : quelque chose qui, qui, te semblait-il, te semble-t-il, t'as jusqu'alors réconforté, t'a tenu chaud au coeur, le sentiment de ton existence, de ton importance presque, l'impression d'adhérer, de baigner dans le monde, se met à te faire défaut.

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

We are living in dystopia, in a world that is dominated by technology and disconnect, alienation, loneliness, and dysfunction.

The irony of the media and people in big cities is that they're charged with defining the entire culture, when in reality they don't even live in that culture. They live in such a rarified, tiny world.