Quotes About Disconnect

I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.

Yes, I'm grateful for technology. But I'm also happy for the off switch.

When you walk into the cinema you have to switch your phones off, you get involved with the big screen, you cry with the film, you laugh with the film. It actually drives the message home far stronger than when you quickly see it on your phone.

I used to think that the feeling of alienation that I would have was just me, but I realise that it's also a symptom of the modern world.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

[A 404 page] is the feeling of a broken relationship.

Creio que o importante dos escritores são seus livros. Melhor lê-los do que conhecê-los, muitas vezes, porque quando se descobrem coisas como essa, nota-se um desencontro entre a pessoa e a obra.

The web began to seem a vast, silent stock exchange trading in ever more anonymous and hostile pen pals.

In all my life— though surrounded by many people— I had not had a single satisfying, sustained relationship with another human being and, not having had any, I did not miss it. I made no demands whatever upon others.

I want some time without you organic life forms.

God, it's like talking to a cyborg sometimes. You pretend to listen, but really, you've just gone on pause, waiting for me to stop so you can reiterate your original point.

When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.

We have turned away from the natural world. Instead, it's all about money and power.

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

We were spoiled unlike any generation in history, and we forgot completely just how dependent we were on the juice flowing through the wires, the buttons doing something when we pushed them.

The world is too much with us.

People feel politics isn't about their lives.

and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.

Raskolnikov realised in that moment that it was no longer possible for him to talk to anyone about anything, ever.

We are already more or less disconnected from our history and thus also from its destination. That means, then, that time can slow as it nears its end and that the year 2000, in a certain way, will not take place.

All in all, iGen'ers are increasingly disconnected from human relationships—

It's like you can't have a real conversation with anyone.

There is very little that is natural left in people when they stray from the cities. Day hiking in Gore-Tex with a bag of trail mix and a cell phone in a fanny pack and a bottle of iced chai tea clipped to your belt isn't actually natural, it's tourism, or worse, voyeurism.

I think the disconnect is more related to the idea of "being" anything when it's the "doing" that's more rewarding. Being something isn't real in the same way that doing something can be real.