Disconnect Quotes

“Sometimes she was even sure that she had ever really existed.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, The Van Alen Legacy

“Still, she really did seem to be absurdly into this. It was almost existentially unsettling, that two people in such close physical proximity could be experiencing the same moment so differently.”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This

“And he could go on in life, existing from day to day, without connection and without hope. For he did not know what to do with himself.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

“So this was kissing. He had to admit Rachel seemed into it. She kept kind of rolling around and sighing. Would he be enjoying himself more if he were kissing Anna? Frankly, it was hard to ever imagine being turned on by this activity. Two boneless slabs of flesh, flopping around, like a pair of slugs mating in the cavern of your mouth. Gross, Ted. What was wrong with him?”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This

“It will take centuries to disconnect people from an addiction like religion; no matter how bad and disastrous it could be, but addiction is the worst of all.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“Live like the water droplets on the lotus's leaves, connected yet disconnected, and be open to letting go when u have to.”
― Dido Stargaze

“It would be better to disconnect from everything, to float free from my body, to be nothing in an endless night of nothing.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“When the Lord disconnects you from your past, don't try to hook up with it again.”
― Anita R. Sneed-Carter

“We all need the pendulum swing of snatching spaces of solitude and serving tables of sociability. In fact, the more plugged in and connected we are, the more we need to unplug and disconnect. A world of presence needs a time of absence.”
― Leonard Sweet, The Bad Habits of Jesus: Showing Us the Way to Live Right in a World Gone Wrong

“This extraordinary technology that makes it possible for us to connect with someone on the other side of the world also disconnects us from the person on the other side of the table. Be intentional about what you're doing and when you're doing it. If you're with a person, be with them.”
― Rob Bell, How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living

“The autistic form of life does not conform to assumed social normativity and does not easily extend outward into the social, leading to a 'double empathy problem' between people of diverse dispositions, that is, both parties struggle to understand and relate to one another. Such differences in presentation can lead to dyspathic reactions and stigma, often leading to ill-fated attempts at normalisation and a continuing vicious cycle of psycho-emotional disablement.”
― Damian Milton, A Mismatch of Salience

“Kath experiences a moment of confused dislocation, as though her soul has suddenly relocated into her body from very far away.”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This

“Walking into the forest, you return to your roots. Disconnected from the chaos, you get reconnected with the beat of life. Disengaging yourself from the grip of pain, you engage your soul in finding the purpose.”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“The best protection is to snip the connecting cord they’ve attached that ties your choice to guilt. First, snip the cord inside yourself. Then thank them for their support, as if support was what they had to offer. This disconnects their access and frees you to move on without any chains of obligation to bind you.”
― Rick Kirschner, Dealing with Difficult People : 24 lessons for Bringing Out the Best in Everyone

“Irony can be an endearing friend in one moment, and a cruel enemy in the next.”
― Dave Cenker, Second Chance

“If everyone I love is dead, where can I go if I do happen to escape?
Nowhere.
And for some reason, nowhere is the only place I want to be.”
― Kayla Krantz, The Elemental Coven

“Illegally disconnect my electricity and we will have a problem.”
― Steven Magee

“Everything you do should be done to connect to others not to disconnect.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“When you have a sickened mind and body, you have to spiritually disconnect from the situation and look at it as an opportunity to research the root causes.”
― Steven Magee

“Blanca came in and out of my life over the next few weeks, but she never came far enough for me to see her. I failed to meet her in so many different ways that I began to know her anyway. I knew the qualities of her particular absence. I dressed up for it. I wore a suit that I had never gotten the hang of in the seventies, but now it felt all right. It’s an unusual suit because it’s light beige, almost off-white. You don’t see that color much in big amounts, suit and jacket both. It became my uniform for not meeting Blanca.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

“We need to move away from the indoor society.”
― Steven Magee

“No amount of geographical disconnect can separate us. We are already connected in every thought. We are already making our way through every challenge together.”
― Bella Bloom

“I like disconnecting and feeling invisible, a sensation like floating, when it’s good. A run alone in the mountains in the early morning when no one is around can be like that. Solitude refuels me, clarifies and heightens my interactions with the world.”
― Mina Samuels, Run Like a Girl 365 Days a Year: A Practical, Personal, Inspirational Guide for Women Athletes

“Whenever you feel empty from the inside, it is a sign of disconnection with your creator.”
― Khuliso Mamathoni, The Greatest Proposal

“I continue to witness a universal pelvic disconnect. Sometimes the detachment is physical: a woman has difficulty feeling her vaginal muscles. Other times it is emotional: a woman disassociates herself from her pelvic space as a way of coping with painful associations regarding femininity or her body. More subtly, this pelvic disconnect is energetic.”
― Tami Lynn Kent, Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit, & Joy in the Root of the Female Body

“Disconnect in a nice way.”
― Steven Magee

“The best thing to do when you receive an aggressive phone call is to hang up.”
― Steven Magee

“we can probably, as a nation, loose all our birds, and there is an increasing number of people who wouldn’t even notice. as we become more urban, we’re loosing out attachment”
― George Monbiot, Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life

“we can probably, as a nation, loose all our birds, and there is an increasing number of people who wouldn’t even notice. as we become more urban, we’re loosing our attachment”
― George Monbiot, Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life

“She couldn’t believe the peculiar and pretentious state of the world that she had once felt so at home in...”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction