Quotes About Disconnect

I am isolated. I sit in a glass ball, I see people through a glass wall. I scream, but they do not hear me. - Ellen West

And when a girl likes talking about you more than talking to you, well, in my experience, that's the end.

Technology has allowed...our society to separate itself from the sights and the sounds of killing.... It must be easy to kill from a roomful of fluorescent lights and wash-and-wear shirts.

but her eyes had had too much in them and his heart way too little for things to keep going.

Well, now you know me. You know I don't have close relationships with anybody any more - I don't know what to do with these things. I hold things in my hand like pieces of crap and don't know where to put it down.

Despite the constant clamor for attention from the modern world, I do believe we need to procure a psychological space for ourselves. I apparently know some people who try to achieve this by logging off or going without their Twitter or Facebook for a limited period.

I don't have a Twitter, so I don't know what's happening in that world.

I'm a bit of a grandma: I don't really understand the Twitter and the Instagram.

I don't envy these kids these days. Between Instagram and Twitter... the easiest thing is just take your phone off the hook, and you're good.

To use a word I never thought I'd apply to myself, I've sort of become a Luddite with regard to information. Where everyone else is getting their Twitter feeds from 'The New York Times' and their 'Huffington Post' emails, I live in a little bit of a bubble.

I have a Twitter handle, but I never sign on.

I don't know how old my phone is, but it was only $10. It is a nice subconscious way of not having the Internet at your fingertips... e-mail, Twitter or Facebook.

I've never really been into social media - I don't have a Facebook; I don't do Twitter or Instagram or anything.

There are a lot of people in D.C. who have never been on Twitter or Facebook and don't get what's happening.

Our civilizations have evolved. The solutions we can find for the things that keep us somewhat primitive and base and ugly in our desires can improve and become more sophisticated. Sometimes there's a disconnect between that. My car can drive, but we can't get rid of violence.

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

How many times have we seen politicians in office become cut off from the outside world and become unaware that the world has moved on?

I had always felt that I was an observer, never a participant; that I was watching from behind a thick glass wall as people went about the business of living--and did it with such ease, with a skill that they took for granted and that I had never known.

When Cal hangs up he has the same empty feeling he always gets after talking to Alyssa these days, a sense that somehow, in spite of having been on the phone for all that time, they haven't had a conversation at all; the whole thing was made of air and tumbleweed, nothing solid there. When she was a little kid she would trot along holding his hand and tell him everything, good and bad, it all poured straight from her heart to her mouth. He can't remember when that changed.

Talking to my dad is like talking to a wall!!;)

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.

Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms.

I'm not even speaking to people any more; I just want to be reading my Kindle the whole time!

In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of nature.