Quotes & Sayings About Shutting Yourself Off
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![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Julie Schumacher Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Julie Schumacher](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-julie-schumacher-88000.jpg)
But an idea had presented itself to him, knocking at his brain like a nighttime traveler, and instead of shutting the door in its face, Browles built it a fire, he drew a chair for it up to the hearth and spent half a decade trying to decipher and then convey what it struggled to tell him. He was patient and industrious and quietly determined. Buffeted by setbacks and rejection and his own limitations, he persevered. — Julie Schumacher
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Virginia Woolf Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Virginia Woolf](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-virginia-woolf-75260.jpg)
Yes, our old age is not going to be sunny orchard drowse. By shutting down the fire curtain, though, I find I can live in the moment; which is good; why yield a moment to regret or envy or worry? Why indeed? (24 December 1940) — Virginia Woolf
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By J. Lynn Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By J. Lynn](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-j-lynn-185190.jpg)
Rules?"
He nodded as he peeled the third egg. "There's not that many. No shutting me out. It's just you and me and no one else." He paused, and my
heart was jumping. "And finally, you keep looking damn sexy in my shirts. — J. Lynn
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Mark Steyn Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Mark Steyn](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-mark-steyn-265518.jpg)
But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down? — Mark Steyn
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Matthew Donnelly Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Matthew Donnelly](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-matthew-donnelly-277642.jpg)
There are three levels of consciousness.
The first level is when you stop thinking and letting outside sources think for you. In which you become a different mind.
The second is simply thinking.
The third the highest form of consciousness. Is when you rise ABOVE thought. Transcend thought by shutting it completely off. — Matthew Donnelly
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Hima Raza Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Hima Raza](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-hima-raza-236604.jpg)
it's a good thing I'm used to this;
the process of shutting things out
as they fall apart,
the pretence of cool
in a dry, hot season,
the taste of redemption
in a t.v. screen
if God had a voice
what would it say? — Hima Raza
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Anonymous Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Anonymous](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-anonymous-139588.jpg)
The Birmingham campaign was a repeat of SCLC's 1961 campaign in Albany, Georgia, which turned out a complete failure. King was banking on being able to fill up the jails and still have recruits willing to engage in civil disobedience, shutting the system down, but the authorities simply made their jails "bottomless" by shipping detainees elsewhere. A couple years later, black residents of Albany rioted, suggesting what they thought about their experience with nonviolence (these riots are not mentioned in most chronologies of the movement). — Anonymous
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Cate Shortland Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Cate Shortland](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-cate-shortland-269335.jpg)
Try and withhold your judgment, because as soon as you think you know something, you're shutting down. — Cate Shortland
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Suzanne Collins Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Suzanne Collins](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-suzanne-collins-287604.jpg)
You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a fully loaded weapon next to you round the clock. But I think it's time you flipped this little scenario in your head. If you'd been taken by the Capitol, and hijacked, and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you? demands Haymitch.
I fall silent. It isn't. It isn't how he would be treating me at all. He would be trying to get me back at any cost. Not shutting me out, abandoning me, greeting me with hostility at every turn. — Suzanne Collins
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Hillary Clinton Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Hillary Clinton](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-hillary-clinton-159038.jpg)
Despite our founding principles and the many ways our constitution has protected individual liberties, we do, let's admit it, have a long history of shutting people out
african americans, women, gays and lesbians, people with disabilities
and throughout our history, we have found too many ways to divide and exclude people from their ownership of the law and protection under the law. — Hillary Clinton
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Alan Moore Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Alan Moore](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-alan-moore-299258.jpg)
For soon, the dark millenium will fall, and the world will be a different place, requiring different species. Cataracts will occlude the Sun, shutting out its hateful light, and fabulous new life-forms shall flourish and struggle beneath the perpetual stars. — Alan Moore
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Peter Tork Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Peter Tork](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-peter-tork-80149.jpg)
Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away. — Peter Tork
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Melina Marchetta Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Melina Marchetta](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-melina-marchetta-272388.jpg)
He takes the coffee from her, needing fresh air because if he doesn't get out of this room, he'll suffocate from memories. He's felt like that for more than a month now. There's no particular reason for it, but sometimes he feels like he can't breathe, like his body is shutting down. — Melina Marchetta
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Abby McDonald Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Abby McDonald](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-abby-mcdonald-219395.jpg)
Garrett has been the best friend a girl could want, so how could I be so stupid as to think about shutting him out for good? I've been so busy thinking about my unrequited love, I haven't even stopped to consider the other, more important part of our relationship.
Friendship.
Ignoring him now would make him think I don't care, that I don't want to be friends. I want to get over him, not lose him for good! How must he feel, with me not replying to his texts and e-mails like this? What kind of friend am I? — Abby McDonald
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Augusten Burroughs Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Augusten Burroughs](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-augusten-burroughs-231787.jpg)
I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. I'm shutting down. I need to go the other way, inside. And it was so clear to me what I was doing. It was suddenly perfectly clear.
I understood, I need to write. Live here, in my words, and my head. I need to go inside, that's all. No big, complicated, difficult thing. I just need to go in reverse. And not worry about what to write about, but just write. Or, if I'm going to worry about what to write, then do this worrying on paper, so at least I'm writing and will have a record of the anxiety. — Augusten Burroughs
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Liane Moriarty Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Liane Moriarty](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-liane-moriarty-240573.jpg)
The opening bars of a new band's song comes on the radio and Sophie quickly flicks up the volume. A good omen. She's been listening out for the song for ages. She's in the early stages of falling in love with it, where she knows the chorus but not the verses and she makes up pretend words so she doesn't have to stop singing. She sings lustily, enjoying how stupid she must look to other people, with her mouth opening and shutting and her face twisting in rock-star anguish. — Liane Moriarty
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Maeve Binchy Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Maeve Binchy](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-maeve-binchy-197396.jpg)
Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen — Maeve Binchy
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Amit Chaudhuri Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Amit Chaudhuri](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-amit-chaudhuri-289638.jpg)
A customs man at JFK had asked them to open the suitcases (in case they were smuggling in Indian fruits or sweets, perhaps). 'Ulysses!' the large bespectacled disbelieving customs man had said. 'Are you a student?' Ananda had nodded, though he was in the equivalent of high school. 'I wouldn't read Ulysses unless I was a student!' said the customs man, shutting the suitcase after his glimpse into the tantalising freemasonry of studenthood. A potentially incendiary book then - on the verge of being, but not quite, contraband. And near-unreadable. Ananda — Amit Chaudhuri
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Jon Kabat-Zinn Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Jon Kabat-Zinn](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-jon-kabat-zinn-1975860.jpg)
Meditation is neither shutting things out nor off. It is seeing things clearly, and deliberately positioning yourself differently in relationship to them. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Deepak Chopra Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Deepak Chopra](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-deepak-chopra-2243515.jpg)
Fear, anger, stubbornness, and distrust portray themselves as your rescuers. Actually these energies only make you more closed off. Tell yourself: Nobody ever solved a situation by panicking; no one ever solved a situation by refusing to hear new answers; no one solved a situation by shutting down ... — Deepak Chopra
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Bessel A. Van Der Kolk Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Bessel A. Van Der Kolk](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-bessel-a-van-der-kolk-217800.jpg)
However, traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.
The more people try to push away and ignore internal warning signs, the more likely they are to take over and leave them bewildered, confused, and ashamed. People who cannot comfortably notice what is going on inside become vulnerable to respond to any sensory shift either by shutting down or by going into a panic - they develop a fear of fear itself. — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Christopher Moore Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Christopher Moore](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-christopher-moore-204226.jpg)
Ten salespeople, all young, all dressed in generic cotton casual, looked up from their conversations, spotted the money in her hand, and simultaneously stopped breathing-their brains shutting down bodily functions and rerouting the needed energy to calculate the projected commissions contained in Jody's cash. One by one they resumed breathing and marched toward her, a look of dazed hunger in their eyes: a pack of zombies from the perky, youthful version of The Night of the Living Dead. "I wear a size four and I've got a date in fifteen minutes," Jody said. "Dress me." They descended on her like an evil khaki wave. — Christopher Moore
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Heather Demetrios Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Heather Demetrios](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-heather-demetrios-199653.jpg)
I know you don't like me," Kes said to her. "And, frankly, I don't like you. But please do me the service of shutting the fuck up. I'm doing the best I can. — Heather Demetrios
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Melissa Tagg Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Melissa Tagg](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-melissa-tagg-152361.jpg)
But as much as life is sometimes about knowing what you want and going after it and finishing, maybe other times it's about slowing down and shutting up and waiting. There's not always a clear beginning and obvious end. Sometimes we're in the middle . . . and it's okay to camp out there for a while. — Melissa Tagg
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Laurel Holloman Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Laurel Holloman](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-laurel-holloman-141382.jpg)
Every day I strive to get to a place where I'm not effected by the external world, and I don't use the external world to define or tell me who I am. I strive for a state of equanimity and calm and a state of grace, so I can be free of definitions. If you are free, then you can create beautiful things. It's really just shutting out the noise. — Laurel Holloman
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By The Bhagavad Gita Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By The Bhagavad Gita](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-the-bhagavad-gita-138384.jpg)
Shutting out all external objects, fixing the vision between the eyebrows, making even the inward and outward breaths, the sage who has controlled the senses, mind and understanding, who is intent upon liberation, who has cast away desire, fear and anger, he is ever freed. — The Bhagavad Gita
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By E. M. Bounds Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By E. M. Bounds](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-e-m-bounds-135501.jpg)
When we pray, "Give us this day our daily bread," we are, in a measure, shutting tomorrow out of our prayer. We do not live in tomorrow but in today. We do not seek tomorrow's grace or tomorrow's bread. They thrive best, and get most out of life, who live in the living present. They pray best who pray for today's needs, not for tomorrow's, which may render our prayers unnecessary and redundant by not existing at all! — E. M. Bounds
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Carl Honore Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Carl Honore](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-carl-honore-128018.jpg)
In this media-drenched, data-rich, channel-surfing, computer-gaming age, we have lost the art of doing nothing, of shutting out the background noise and distractions, of slowing down and simply being alone with our thoughts. — Carl Honore
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Virginia Woolf Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Virginia Woolf](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-virginia-woolf-126779.jpg)
Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting. — Virginia Woolf
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By A.R. Ammons Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By A.R. Ammons](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-a-r-ammons-122463.jpg)
I have reached no conclusions, have erected no boundaries,
shutting out and shutting in, separating inside
from outside: I have
drawn no lines — A.R. Ammons
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Emily March Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Emily March](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-emily-march-108172.jpg)
If he's shutting people out, what makes you think I'll be able to reach him?" "Because he loves you! It's obvious." Nic — Emily March
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Jodi Picoult Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Jodi Picoult](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-jodi-picoult-95946.jpg)
I told Seven the Bartender that true love is felonious.
"Not if they're over eighteen," he said, shutting the till of the cash register.
By then the bar itself had become an appendage, a second torso holding up my first. "You take someone's breath away," I stressed. "You rob them of the ability to utter a single word." I tipped the neck of the empty liquor bottle toward him. "You steal a heart."
He wiped up in front of me with a dishrag. "Any judge would toss that case out on its ass."
"You'd be surprised."
Seven spread the rag out on the brass bar to dry. "Sounds like a misdemeanor, if you ask me."
I rested my cheek on the cool, damp wood. "No way," I said. "Once you're in, it's for life. — Jodi Picoult
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Stendhal Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Stendhal](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-stendhal-95553.jpg)
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face. — Stendhal
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Suzanne LaFleur Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Suzanne LaFleur](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-suzanne-lafleur-91319.jpg)
But in life people come and go. We don't always have control over it. But we can control how we respond. We can keep going, keep living the best we can. We can love the people we have instead of shutting them out. We can do our best to get to know them in the time we have. — Suzanne LaFleur
![Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Yevgeny Zamyatin Shutting Yourself Off Quotes By Yevgeny Zamyatin](https://quotessayings.net/pics/shutting-yourself-off-quote-by-yevgeny-zamyatin-79350.jpg)
Shutting my eyes, I dreamed in formulas. — Yevgeny Zamyatin