Quotes About Disconnect

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

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

I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.

Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.

I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and that's about my only connection to the modern world.

the love thrust upon the Swede seemed actually to deprive him of feeling.

Siamo monadi, incapaci di messaggi reciproci, o capaci solo di messaggi monchi, falsi in partenza, fraintesi all'arrivo.

Clarity confused me. I was far less forgiving and kind than the general state of disconnection in which I liked to live.

He and his mother weren't close and never had been, really. In this, as in so much else in his life, Jess was alone

Philosophy could be severed from life.

I don't try to attach myself to technology so much. I'm on my phone a lot, though, but in the off season, I try to get away from it as much as I can.

I don't have email.

The phone rang. I picked it up. "Are you sitting down?" Curran's voice asked. "Yes." "Good." Click. I listened to the disconnect signal. If he wanted me to sit, then I'd stand. I got up. The chair got up with me and I ended up bent over my desk, with the chair stuck to my butt. I grabbed the edge of the chair and tried to pull it off. It remained stuck. I would murder him. Slowly. And I'd enjoy every second of it.

Music allows me to disconnect from my present reality, and communicate to my future wisdom.

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

Computers make me totally blank out.

If the super-rich believe that they are no longer part of society and have little need of government, it is not because this belief corresponds to objective reality.

Select one day a week and remove yourself from the maw. Stop working. Don't answer your email. Ignore your voice mail. Turn off your mobile phone. Most Western religions have established a Sabbath—the seventh day of the week—as a time of peace, reflection, and prayer.

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.

his cell phone didn't work in Three Pines, and neither did email. He almost expected to see messages fluttering back and forth in the sky above the village, unable to descend.

Surely you can feel it. Do you ever feel lost, as though people are speaking a foreign language, as though there's something going on which everyone else gets, but you don't?

My father looked right at me, but he didn't answer. And his eyes were dazed and staring through me, like I was made out of smoke. That was the first time I thought that maybe I was.