Quotes About Disconnect

I was terribly, painfully present in the world, and so far removed from it.

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

We need long train journeys on which we have no wireless signal

Invisibly, almost without notice, we are losing ourselves. We are losing our ability to know who we are and what is important to us. We are creating a global machine in which each of us is a mindless and reflexive cog, relentlessly driven by the speed, noise, and artificial urgency of the wired world.

Slaves to our media delivery devices, we are ever available to this vague, demanding elsewhere, and our ability to experience the "now" is dissolving.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

They are talking to me and around me, but I can't hear them. I pretend to be interested in one of my books, but the words dance on the page.

started out so easy, so fun, and now we're like strangers. I'll never have that person back, who I knew better than anyone and who knew me so well.

and awful. He never had anything to say to me, and I never knew what to say to him. Finally

They say when you're lonely you start to lose words.

Words, Words, Words—they do not reach me.

When you cannot make friends any more in your head is the worst.

I had no feeling for him. He did not seem to have anything to do with me. I felt no feeling of fatherhood.

I don't love anybody, Krebs said. It wasn't any good. He couldn't tell her, he couldn't make her see it. It was silly to have said it. He had only hurt her.

I don't have a lot of words, but I have a lot of faith. I know the road feels low and winding, and we seem to need the pain to cut to the core, to emerge from the sleepwalk of despair and feel through the numbness of disconnect and indifference. But if we let ourselves feel this, we will be better for it.

As she slid into sleep one fact remained with her, a fact that would not be dismissed. When he had held her in his arms, and moved into her, she had felt nothing, even though she was aware of his arousal. That would be the way of it now.

But I think what Liam said just kind of hit it spot on, that the people in the capital are brainwashed and such a disconnect with what's actually happening. They don't realize what if it was their kids that were being put into the games? They just don't have the mindset to have that kind of compassion for people.

What if lawmakers never spoke to their constituents? Oddly enough, that's exactly how corporate America operates. Shareholders vote for directors, but the directors rarely, if ever, communicate with them.

Whereas with foreign coverage there's a much broader disconnect between you and your audience.

If you're having a very high-adrenaline, high-movement experience in virtual reality, and then all of a sudden you're back in your office, that disconnect is pretty notable. Whereas if you're using it for virtual reality teleconferencing... there's really no kind of impact moving back and forth between the real and the virtual world.

I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

When I get out of the studio, I want to disconnect from music. I would rather spend time with my family or watch a movie. I cannot take any more music.

Usually, the 24-hour, high-maintenance celebrity lifestyle can disconnect people from reality.