Quotes About Disconnect

You have built a wall of concrete shit between yourself and reality.

Quelques secondes plus tard, son père entendit le bruit d'une porte qui se refermait, mais ce n'était pas un claquement de colère : c'était plutôt la séparation que l'on met volontairement, et sans heurt, entre soi-même et ceux que l'on ne parvient plus à comprendre.

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe.

I've attempted tech-free days when I turn off the phone and stare at the iPad instead.

Kids are so accustomed to technology that it's upsetting to watch them without their phones. They don't know what to do. Sometimes I feel like I'm like that, too - if I get my phone taken away because I'm grounded, I don't know what to do. So I just have to sit in my room and stare blankly at the ceiling.

I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

When the left party in a system severs its bonds to working people—when it dedicates itself to the concerns of a particular slice of high-achieving affluent people—issues of work and income inequality will inevitably fade from its list of concerns.

people who shut off Facebook, even for a month, reported a general improvement in their mood and happiness.32

country today. No manners." Serge unscrewed a thermos of coffee. "People used to hang out and actually communicate. But today they head to the mall and sit together at the Yogurt A Go-Go in their own separate spheres of mobile devices." "What's wrong with that?" "It's destroying the art of conversation!" said Serge. "I love conversations!

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

If you're on a film set for 48 weeks of the year, you're nowhere near reality. You can't emote like a human being.

I am nowhere near social media.

My life is not nuts. I hardly ever watch television, I don't go out very much, so I don't really know what's going on.

Because our tragedy is that we diverge as countrymen further and further away from one another, like a space ship broken apart in flight which now drifts mournfully in isolated orbits, satellites to each other, planets none, communications faint.

He rang off, pocketed the disk

Really, we did not share a vocabulary that would allow for such a conversation; it was far too late to tell her anything.

Yes, I feel something is wrong between men and women. A woman has no glamour for a man any more.' `Has a man for a woman?' She pondered the other side of the question. `Not much,' she said truthfully.

She felt weak and utterly forlorn. She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.

When these long telephone silences come, it is a sure sign that love is over.

Jim Adams, Kurt's nephew, found "there was a definite disconnect between the kind of guy you would imagine Kurt must be from the tone of his books, the kind of guy who would say, 'God damn it, you got to be kind,' and the reality of his behavior on a daily basis. He was a complicated, difficult man.… I think he admired the idea of love, community, and family from a distance, but couldn't deal with the complicated emotional elements they included."142

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Science is insulating man from life - separating his mind from his senses. The worst of it is that it soon anaesthetises his senses so that he doesn't know what he's missing.

I happen to believe that America is dying of loneliness, that we, as a people have bought into the false dream of convenience, and turned away from a deep engagement with our internal lives.