Quotes About Losing Contact

#1. I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets. That's a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.

Philip K. Dick

#2. The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#3. In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

C. G. Jung

#4. What I know I could put into a pack
as if it were bread and cheese, and carry it
on one shoulder,
important and honorable, but so small!
While everything else continues, unexplained
and unexplainable.

Mary Oliver

#5. In its extreme form, this fear of losing one's orientation is the fear of psychosis. When persons actually are on the brink of psychosis, they often have an urgent need to seek out some contact with other human beings.

Rollo May

#6. We may be losing the ability to understand animals who are not pets or horses. We have less contact with them. We don't (most of us) tend to know even cows and pigs, let alone bears or wolverines or red tailed hawks.

Marge Piercy

#7. It's always refreshing to meet someone crazier than us," I said. "We seem so normal afterward.

James Patterson

#8. There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.

Walter Mosley

#9. I believe that the happiest of all Christians and the truest of Christians are those who never dare to doubt God, but take His Word simply as it stands, and believe it, and ask no questions, just feeling assured that if God has said it, it will be so.

Charles Spurgeon

#10. Don't complain about autumn. Walk with grief like a good friend. Listen to what he says. Sometimes the cold and dark of a cave give the opening we most want.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#11. When God puts something in your heart and deep down you know it's a destiny moment, don't wait for ten confirmations. Do what God is asking you to do now.

Joel Osteen

#12. The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.

Paul De Man

#13. I'm scared that if I collaborated on something with somebody, I would be in some way losing my own contact with what I was going and tempting fate.

Joan Juliet Buck

#14. Starkville is an Indian word for trailer park.

Skip Bertman

#15. I don't understand love very well and I don't understand why someone would give it so freely.

Katie McGarry

#16. Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be.

V.S. Pritchett

#17. I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.

Mark Hoppus

#18. All things die not: while the soul lives, love lives: the song may be now gay, now plaintive, but it is deathless.

Mary Johnston

#19. A man of action as well as a man of thought, all he did was without effort to one of his vigorous and sanguine temperament.

Jules Verne

#20. For Marquez, the transition from standing around to dancing was instantaneous and total. It wasn't about looking cool, it was about losing all contact with the normal world, gong away to a place where her body and mind and the music were all the same thing.

Katherine Applegate

#21. In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

Mary Kay Ash

#22. Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.

Jon English