Shutdown Quotes

“I'm not making sense, and I'm so tired of having to make sense. I've even more tired of talking about how OK or not OK I am. I'm not. I've failed. That's it. People should stop going on about it.”
― Corinne Duyvis, On the Edge of Gone

“I try to focus, but there's a disconnect between my body and my mind, like nothing about it fits anymore. I don't feel like I belong in this body, I don't know how to interact with this world. It feels like I'm observing through a veil, and I don't know how to move. Panic is a type of pain too.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Even If We Break

“It's one thing to stick to your guns. It's quite another to hold those guns to the heads of your citizens.”
― Lori Lifsey

“I know you're worried. I'm sorry. I'm just...very..." I can't think of the right word. How do I explain that mind is too slow and too jumbled all at once. That I'm out of gas? That I've failed, and the only way to keep from falling apart is to accept that? Or that maybe I've already fallen apart, and I don't know if I can sweep the pieces back together?
I settle on three words. "I am tired.”
― Corinne Duyvis, On the Edge of Gone

“I'm getting so sick of talking. It's like holding the wrong kind of magnets together: I can try and try, but it takes brute force, and the second I relax, the magnets simply slide past each other.”
― Corinne Duyvis, On the Edge of Gone

“Your mind is filled with ample secret abilities not known to you, keep it active by shutting down disbelieve.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“About 98% of the women I coach are sensually shutdown. It’s not that they don’t want to experience extraordinary love, they can’t because they have deep unhealed wounds.”
― Lebo Grand

“We are expected to function, to go on with our lives, to carry on and repeat the exact same behaviours that got us into this rainbow-loading screen in the first place because 'everyone else can--so suck it up!' And we'll fall. And we'll crash. And we'll keep on crashing. We'll crash again and again and again as we're forced into these scenarios to be washed, rinsed, repeated and spat back out again.

Until we can't anymore.

Our bodies can only take so much, and after too long of too much, we can't continue anymore. We go into safe mode.”
― Chloé Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

“I'm not a state or federal employee, so the shutdown only indirectly affects my family and I. I have, however, been out of work before. I know how it feels to pay bills all the while watching what little I managed to save, dwindle. In your hands, Mr. President, America is Troy.”
― A.K. Kuykendall

“If Shut Down
***
What will happen
With the addicted ones
If all the social media
And the internet
Would be shut down
As Google plus did
What will it establish;
The mental calm
Or the mental collapse?”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“I don't think you're even hearing me."
Her laugh turns into a sob.
I'm listening. I just don't know what to say, or how. Words crawl in the back of my mind but won't take enough shape to reach my tongue.”
― Corinne Duyvis, On the Edge of Gone

“Due to my work in high altitude professional astronomy, the COVID-19 shutdown was not an issue for me as I was used to social isolation.”
― Steven Magee

“Things must be getting bad in the solar photovoltaic industry if they are now required to install solar module level DC shutdown systems!”
― Steven Magee