Disassociation Quotes

Astounded—and indifferent—for he was a man who, in effect, had no ‘day before’.

Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as it were, outside my own body and individuality; I am depersonalized, detached, cut adrift. Is this madness?

Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty.

There's a brain chemistry - the floatiness and the disassociation and all the things that came with starving - I became addicted to.

By virtue of their being regarded as something "exceptional," even by friends and well-wishers, Negroes of attainment and genius have been unfairly disassociated from the group, and group credit lost accordingly.

I don't associate myself with anything. I don't associate myself with where I'm from or where I am.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria.

I have nothing to do with Donald Trump.

I have disassociated myself from that book.

Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.

It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough.

My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.

No, we did not do this, and we are not with you.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to be in the presence of nature your feelings and 'little seedlings' start to awake. So if we disassociate ourselves from God we cut nature out, too. More and more we turn nature into a commodity, into eco-tourism. But we must integrate it into the way people live every day.

I'm most certainly not the Beatles.

We didn't have any relationship at all with Trump.

He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him. He no longer felt anything, though very faintly he could hear the impact of the club upon his body. But it was no longer his body, it seemed so far away.

I'm the furthest thing away from a cop.

I have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge no person that I deal with does.

I think all my work's been about how do women get back into our bodies; how do men get back. We're all disassociated.

I want nothing to do with O.J. Simpson. I want that name so far behind me, I want it out of my life.