Quotes About Disconnect

Our silence was not the vacuum that comes from having said all there is to say. Whatever conversation we had fell naturally to pieces and crumbled in bitter silence.

Things are happening to you, and you feel them happening, but except for this one fact, you have no connection with them, and no key to the cause or meaning of them.

For some reason, he still felt (the same), like (incident) had happened to another (name), his mind going there while his body stayed on the outside, not aging, waiting for him to come back and claim it.

Dear God. When did language and meaning divorce each other and decide to go their separate ways?

In the present age, a man with harmonious ideas is regarded as out of touch.

I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation between him and his fellows.

Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night.

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

For people who like peace and quiet: a phoneless cord.

At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says.

Society has failed its inhabitants, just as its inhabitants have failed society.

For many people, politics in Brussels and Strasbourg might as well be happening on another planet.

As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.

I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.

People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it's totally dysfunctional.

Never call your office while you're on vacation. That's always been one of my hard and fast rules.

Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.

as usual, she wasn't able to live in the moment. Maybe that's what grief is: a permanent disconnect from the here and now.

Moreover, as usual, she wasn't able to live in the moment. Maybe that's what grief is: a permanent disconnect from here and now. She looked at the games adults played and felt detached. It was easy to tell herself: "I'm not here.".

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

They disconnect biblical truths from each other like a depraved artist who rearranges the pieces of a beautiful mosaic.

Aubrey was surprised by how quickly she'd begun to mentally disconnect from the infinite online distractions she'd used to seek. She had kicked the internet to the curb with a speed and conviction that surprised her, awakening as if from hypnosis and realizing what a prisoner of algorithm her thoughts had been. No coffee, no internet? Thank Christ.