Disorientation Quotes

“GLOBAL TEMPERATURES HAVE LOWERED BY ONE DEGREE. GLOBEWIDE NATURAL INGREDIENT SHORTAGE IN EFFECT AS OF THIS MESSAGE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE ”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

“Outside the hospital, I squinted in the harsh morning sunlight. I could hear birds chirping in the tree, but even though I searched for them, they remained hidden from me.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“Someone with no shape
came suddenly in my life’s noon
and grabbing with trembling hands
asked me, lost on my own footpath
walking endlessly
as far as the memory goes,
and asked—
whose city is this?”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Undergoing personal change is a difficult but necessary process of maturing into the ultimate manifestation of a desirable self. True personal transformation requires a person honestly to assess their inner spirituality and adopt a clear vision of who they want to be. An earnest person experiencing inner transformation of their values and belief system is apt to feel conflicted, confused, and disorientated. Change of self is displacement, disarticulation, and loss of self. Alteration of our self-image results in disrupting, dislocating, and modifying a person’s perspective of what is significant.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“You will be separated from yourself and yet be alive.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

“With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before—simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he still knew so little about him.”
― Sol Luckman, Snooze: A Story of Awakening

“If truth is relative, then it’s cousin is anarchy.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Hey," Zachary says and she looks up from her book with a dazed expression he's used to wearing himself, the disorientation of being pulled out of one world and back into another.
"Hi," Elena says, coming out of the fiction fog and tucking the Chandler in her bag.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“I am so distracted,
stuck somewhere between
the earth and sky,
unsure where to set my eyes.”
― Susan L. Marshall, Fleur of Yesterday

“Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.”
― Ron Suskind, Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

“A disorienting change pleases no one yet it builds self made heroes.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“He may take long walks
in the raining dark
almost aimlessly
to a spot of soaked grass
in a neighbor’s open field.
He’s decided this is the place
for you and him to meet again.”
― Kristen Henderson, Of My Maiden Smoking

“There is no way to get to transformation without disorientation. And Jesus' life and words continually provoked disorientation in his followers, challenging their small views of God.”
― Anna Mitchell Hall, Church After: Finding Transformation in Unexpected Change

“Arthur lives in a permanent state of disorientation like a low-grade fever, the question hanging over everything being How did I get from there to here?”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“If your anger is the result of your sadness or if your sadness is result of your anger , you are undoubtedly suffering from disorientation.”
― Aparna Pathak

“I felt like a man who awakens in his own house and finds all the furniture rearranged, so that every familiar nook and cranny looks foreign now. Disoriented, he has to reevaluate his surroundings, reorient himself.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“No poder orientarse no es únicamente no reconocer lo que te rodea, no encontrar tu hogar; es no reconocerte a ti mismo, que tanto el mundo como tu propio yo te resulten extraños”
― Patrik Svensson, Un inmenso azul: El mar, el abismo y la curiosidad humana

“But when I came to, I was in the city, walking. I was walking by the river as if I had always been there.
Alone.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne

“A fingerpost indicates that this path leads to Abercynafon, which is not on or even close to the route of Beacons Way, additional confusion is caused by virtue of the Beacons Way roundel attached to the post being yellow in color, rather than the usual white. With cursory attention, the sign may be easily dismissed as not being relevant, however you should take this right turn.”
― Peter Wilson