Quotes About Disconnecting Yourself

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

Shreya Gupta

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

JR

#3. We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

John Sculley

#4. 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

#5. Vanessa Williams in person is like ... the camera cannot capture how gorgeous this woman is! She is just so breathtaking.

Jurnee Smollett

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

Gillian Flynn

#7. 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

#8. Just being visible is my biggest confession, so they try to set me at ease by revealing our equality, by dragging out their own less-apparent deformities.

Katherine Dunn

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. My heart can't stay here in this cage she herself fled. It must move on.

Pierce Brown

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Music is quicksilver, gossamer; careers are measured in butterfly lifetimes.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#16. 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

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

Kathleen Norris

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

Alanis Morissette

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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