Quotes About Disconnect

There is a chasm between me and the world outside of me. A gap so wide my feelings can't cross it. By the time my screams reach the other side, they have dwindled into groans.

I think I'm just really sensitive to the world. I really feel like I spend a lot of time "turned off".

a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.

We are in the era of dysfunctional relationships.

It is a trial to live in such a retired corner of the country, where one rarely sees anyone worth seeing.

Here's a story, and you don't have to visit many houses to find it. One person is talking, the other one is not really listening. Someone can look like they are but they're actually thinking about something they want to say, or their minds are just wandering. Or they're looking at that little box people hold in their hands these days. And people get discouraged, so they quit trying. And the very quiet people, you may have noticed, are often the sad people.

For me, hands are hard. She looks up from what she's doing. Because you're holding this disconnected hand, and it's holding you back. Cadavers occasionally effect a sort of accidental humanness that catches the medical professional off guard. I once spoke to an anatomy student who described a moment in the lab when she realized that the cadaver's arm was around her waist. It becomes difficult, under circumstances such as these, to retain one's clinical remove.

You just read your books and go on a hundred miles away, You ignore me.

No dictionary has words that can make Lev understand estrangement between a father and son.

I don't know my wife and children anymore.

It occurred to me then that for the first time in as long as I could remember, I had absolutely no desire to log back into the OASIS.

She used to have to force me to log out every night, because I never wanted to return to the real world. Because the real world sucked. I

I quickly lost track of time. I forgot that my avatar was sitting in Halliday's bedroom and that, in reality, I was sitting in my hideout, huddled near the electric heater, tapping at the empty air in front of me, entering commands on an imaginary keyboard. All of the intervening layers slipped away, and I lost myself in the game within the game. In

She used to have to force me to log out every night, because I never wanted to return to the real world. Because the real world sucked.

my heart may have been in it but my soul was not.

Flights are expansive moments when the phone doesn't ring and the Internet doesn't work. The maxim that flying time is wasted time liberates me from my anxieties and guilt feelings, and it strips me of all ambitions, leaving room for a different sort of existence. A happy, idiotic existence, the kind that doesn't try to make the most of time but is satisfied with merely finding the most enjoyable way to spend it.

Flights are expansive moments when the phone doesn't ring and the Internet doesn't work. The maxim that flying time is wasted time liberates me from my anxieties and guilt feelings, and it strips me of all ambitions, leaving room for a different sort of existence. A happy, idiotic existence, the kind that doesn't try to make the most of time but is satisfied with merely finding the most enjoyable way to spend it.

Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.

While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.

To me, 'the establishment' means people who are out of touch with the people they're elected to represent.

It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.

I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.

Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding.

I usually live in my own ignorant, pop-culture bubble, so I don't really know what people are doing.