Quotes About Disassociation

#1. I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.

Carlos Castaneda

#2. Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you're not there anymore. It's better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal.

Mary Karr

#3. And it says something about our level of disassociation, that we can provoke these wars abroad but we're not allowed to see people get killed as a result.

Alex Cox

#4. There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.

Tim Heidecker

#5. I had a certain kind of disassociation from the other kids because I had more interest in sociology, ideas and trying to communicate those ideas to the kids around me.

Andy Biersack

#6. Disassociation. It is a word I have heard before but never in reference to that mind trick I had used to cope. That trick isn't a figment of my imagination. It was real. It had a name. And if the coping mechanism was real, it means what I have experienced was real too.

Elizabeth Esther

#7. Sometimes I wish I was in the movies ... Not to be famous or nothing. I just wish I was made of light. Then nobody'd know me except for what they saw up on that screen. I'd just be light up on the silver screen, and not at all a man.

Alan Heathcock

#8. Marriages, both good and bad, were defined by repetition.

Nicholas Sparks

#9. War was a dungeon for the spiritually condemned

Dylan Saccoccio

#10. I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

Peter Heller

#11. The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Remember to reach for the stars, and they won't be able to resist flying into your hands!

Katherine McNamara

#13. Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.

Jerry Brown

#14. Legalism is man-centered; discipline is God-centered.

Barbara Hughes

#15. I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#16. At that moment Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with, and he reached out in order to meet her for the first time.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#17. It's not terribly fun defending you (oil companies), but I do.

Larry Craig

#18. There is music playing somewhere but I can't hear it.

Bret Easton Ellis

#19. It registers that I am sitting there topless, but this body I am in doesn't feel like mine anymore so the half-nakedness seems irrelevant, like a rumor, something I'm supposed to care about but don't.

Lauren Miller

#20. Unless a miracle saves us,' Khushwant Singh writes, 'the country will break up. It will not be Pakistan or any other foreign power that will destroy us; we will commit hara-kiri.

Khushwant Singh

#21. Travis considered the larger one below it. A file drawer. Was it even worth bothering with? What could have been in it but paper? What could be in it now but an inch-deep layer of mold dust?

He opened it.

It contained an inch-deep layer of mold dust.

Patrick Lee