Quotes About Disconnect

It's so much easier to walk away than it is to have to explain to someone that you never want to see them again.

More than once she'd felt as though they were talking at each other rather than to each other.

Every now and again I feel people know too much, or ask too many questions, so I shut my laptop and delete Twitter.

I'll go out to eat and have a really good lunch and try to shut the phone off, but I can't, really, because the social media stuff will start happening.

It's very easy to lose language - it can be shut off in a second.

I think I'm generally more inspired when I'm away from technology. Whether that is on a beach somewhere or just in your room with your phones and screens shut off, I think that quietness is often very inspiring.

I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.

The phone will always ring. If I leave it even for a moment and go some where, by the time I come back there will be at least 50 missed calls. I will then get confused as to who to call and who not to, so it's simpler to live with out a cellphone.

But we Americans scrap relationships that are not working as we would like -- whether they be with relatives, with spouses, or with friends. We dispose of them like Kleenex. When it is inconvenient, painful, difficult, I get rid of you. I hit the road.

The dystopian Shangri-La that so many on the right inhabit was years in the making. If it often seems that the Republican Party is living in a world disconnected from reality, that's because it is. Large elements of the Republican Party have made a collective decision that there is no objective truth.

My problem with country music is that I try to avoid the very situations the lyrics lament.

Unplug yourself often and you risk losing touch with your feelings altogether.

Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling "traditions"; litanies to family values are at the center of every politician's discourse. And yet the culture of America is extremely corrosive of family life, indeed of all traditions except those redefined as "identities" that fit in the larger patterns of distinctiveness, cooperation, and openness to innovation.

A now notorious first fall into alienation, habituating people to abstract the world into printed words

What separated the living from one another could be as impenetrable as whatever barrier separated the living from the dead.

Every once in a while I need a break from Instagram; like six hours long.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

I did not live in the forests. I lived in the concrete city where I could not see the sky or sunset or stars. I moved at the pace of engines and it was faster than my own breath. I became a stranger to myself and to the rhythms of the Earth.

Ahora eran extraños, no, peor que extraños, porque entre ellos no existía la posibilidad de que llegaran a ser amigos. Se trataba de un alejamiento perpetuo.

En el siglo XX, el amor es un teléfono que no suena.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

Technology is changing the way we live and we work and we think. It's going to transform the world, and yet I think there is an alarming sort of disconnect between the world of public policy-making, and the world of technology.

The water is the last place where people cannot text, call or find me," she says with a giggle.

Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.