Quotes About Community

Peo­ple used what they called a tele­phone be­cause they hat­ed be­ing close to­geth­er and they were too scared of be­ing alone.

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people.

Sui­cide is very con­ta­gious.

We're all mis­er­able to­geth­er.

Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends.

People are all looking for that, a hand to hold. Reassurance. The promise that everything will be all right.

But Rachel knows this isn't true. Nobody can stop anything. The people will always be humping next door. The burning cat will always be rocketing like a comet around every house in which they ever live. Nothing will ever be resolved.

Life in These United States. Laughter Is the Best Medicine.

My guess is that people haven't a clue how to get along . They need a structure , rules , and roles to play .

And, it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everyone.

Rant Casey no era malvado. Más bien parecía que estuviera intentando encontrar algo real en el mundo. Hoy día los niños no crecen conectados a nada, se pasan el tiempo enchufados y viviendo vidas que otra gente ha alucinado para ellos. Aventuras de segunda mano. Creo que Rant quería que todo el mundo experimentara por lo menos una aventura de verdad. En tanto que comunidad, algo que uniera a la gente.

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all a part of the same compost pile.

Civilization is a condition which unsocial misfits impose on the rest of popular, easygoing, family-oriented humanity.

Wallace Boyer (Car Salesman): Sell cars long enough and you'll see: Nobody's all that original. Any lone weirdo comes from a big nest of weirdos. What's weird is, you go to some pigsty village in Slovakia, and suddenly even Andy Warhol makes perfect sense.

Perseguís a la gente de quien dependéis, preparamos vuestras comidas, recogemos vuestras basuras, conectamos vuestras llamadas, conducimos vuestras ambuláncias, y os protegemos mientras dormís, así que no te metas con nosotros.

Street gangs were really young men raised without fathers, just trying to help one another become men.

I love knowing a lot of people, but the downside is that means going to a lot of funerals.

THIS IS WHY I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.

Brandy says not to watch myself too close. Honey, she says, times like this, it helps to think of yourself as a sofa or a newspaper, something made by a lot of other people but not made to last forever.

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.

No sois un hermoso copo de nieve individual. Estáis hehcos de la misma materia orgánica corrompible que todos los demás, y todos formamos parte del mismo montón de abono

As pessoas usavam o que chamavam de telefone porque odiavam ficar juntas umas das outras e morriam de medo de ficar sozinhas.

T]he only way a person had to process an experience so troubling was by sharing it.

Tu non sei un delicato e irripetibile fiocco di neve. Tu sei la stessa materia organica deperibile di chiunque altro e noi tutti siamo parte dello stesso cumulo in decomposizione.