Quotes About Disconnecting

#1. Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.

Henri Nouwen

#2. Many of the most accomplished girls are disconnecting from the truest parts of themselves, sacrificing essential self-knowledge to the pressure of who they think they ought to be.

Rachel Simmons

#3. I could feel my limbs disconnecting, floating nearby like driftwood on an oily lake.

Gillian Flynn

#4. I'm so tired of people saying that phones are disconnecting us from each other. I think they're connecting us too much. They're just connecting us to people who aren't in the same room with us.

Mark William Lindberg

#5. Roughly fifty percent of procedure in a Marine basic-training program is about disconnecting the young American boy from his concept of himself as a unique individual, a lone operator.

James D. Bradley

#6. Disconnecting from one's community is a personal choice, of course, but it ends up having social implications ["The Basement," The Awl, Feb 5, 2015].

Ariana Kelly

#7. If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.

William S. Burroughs

#8. The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.

JR

#9. There are people who are very good at disconnecting themselves and becoming other people, and separating from their family lives and going on. They change their names, they become someone else entirely, maybe out west.

Marco Roth

#10. Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum

Robert M. Pirsig

#11. Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Kathleen Norris

#12. When we think of digitally disconnecting and inviting presence into our lives, we are creating the conditions of integration within and between.

Alanis Morissette

#13. I know that hunger for self-isolation, it eats u up. Disconnecting yourself from external world and longing to disappear.

Shreya Gupta

#14. But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible! ...

Anne Frank

#15. What are you waiting for tomorrow to do? To get done? To achieve? To start? Where your good intentions are disconnecting from the actions you should do for the things you desire?

Tony Curl

#16. Philosopher and author Dr. Wayne Dyer calls the ego "edge god out." It is the process of disconnecting with the creative, true force of the universe. It is the process of making you separate from it, others, nature, and the universe.

Emily Maroutian

#17. I had to sever my emotional cord to escape the anger and shame that silently slithered through my head, disconnecting myself from the stares and whispers that followed me down the hall.

Rebecca Donovan

#18. Time is the only constant. For the living it never stops ... For the dead it doesn't matter ... And for the undead? For the undead, time is a joke to be laughed at!

Scott Snyder

#19. Nobody can achieve success alone.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#20. Isn't love worth taking a risk?

Kathleen Fuller

#21. Who cares whether the heroine wins if there wasn't any battle?

Anne Perry

#22. I feel very vulnerable when it has to do with family. Having lost my mom, who I was so extremely close to, now I feel so vulnerable when somebody gets sick or hurt. I become a complete wreck until they're well. Even if it's a cold! I compare myself to Marlin in Finding Nemo.

Nancy O'Dell

#23. I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies.

Sutton Foster

#24. I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.

E.B. White

#25. Don't give your advice before you are called upon.

Desiderius Erasmus

#26. It's rough to be mugged all the time, to have your place broken into all the time. You can buy a building for very little, but then the building has a fire and you have no money, so you have to fix it all yourself.

Francesca DiMattio

#27. My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.

David Puttnam

#28. People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

Chris Hughes

#29. THERE ARE THOSE WHO COME UPON A CHOICE, A CHANCE, AND TREMBLE AND FEAR - WHY SHOULD I ALLOW THEM IN MY SHADOW?

Robert Jackson Bennett

#30. Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#31. As long as it's something you truly want to do, then it's never too late to take that first step.

Kou Matsuzuki

#32. So while God gives the husband a position of leadership in relationship to his wife, He also requires the price of self-sacrifice from him. The

Stormie O'martian