Quotes About Disconnect

Our society's transgenerational social fabric is fraying. We're disconnecting. I think that's making us more vulnerable to adversity, and I think it's a significant factor in the increases in anxiety, suicide, and depression we are seeing currently, even before the COVID-19 pandemic.

As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.

The world throws you out of your body, especially the cyberworld.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you've got to set those phones down.

My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.

I've yet to use a cellphone, and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's writing is finished, and I moved from Manhattan to rural Japan in part so I could more easily survive for long stretches entirely on foot, and every trip to the movies would be an event.

I tend to find that movies have become so slick that I have trouble identifying with the characters.

A lot has changed since I grew up, but there's still a long way to go. I don't think we can move forward with Donald Trump as the president. There's a disconnect there. We don't want to regress, we want progress.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

Sometimes I intentionally cut it off. I just want to be in silence, especially when I'm traveling. I watch movies without sound.

You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.

False doctrine was threatening to disconnect the Philippian believers from their source of joy in Jesus Christ.

It seemed funny that one day I would go to bed in her arms and the next not feel anything, like a switch had gone off. But no, that wasn't honest either. This had been building for a long time. Our silences were getting longer. Our arguments more frequent. How do you stay with someone when there are no dreams to build? No purpose to accomplish? No meaning? No meaning —that was the monster that drove us away from one another in the end. Always.

There was something wrong about seeing her now. It was as if they belonged to different worlds. He wished he could excuse himself.

You're no longer touched by the magic of this place, are you?

More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

I didn't have a cell phone, and as a result I hadn't thought much about what one would do with them, other than irritate people around me.

Social media demands a lot of us on top of our already demanding lives. So let's disconnect as we need to and renew our interest and ourselves.

I'm not on any social media. I'm a bit analog when it comes to the Internet and technology.

I'm not on social media; I don't watch TV. I'm really out of it.

You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.

I am worst when it comes to social media.

I'm not equipped for the social media thing.

I've got a different life. I live up on a farm; I don't have anything to do with social media.