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Quotes About Connection

I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.
~ Betty Smith
You never see a French person eating alone.
~ Pierre Dukan
Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
~ Lillian Hellman
We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.
~ Nick Nolte
We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone.
~ Mira Grant
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
~ Marcel Proust
We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely
~ Hugo Weaving
You staying home all alone on New Year's Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice the countdown should be shared with someone, or it's just another set of numbers passing you by.
~ E. A. Bucchianeri
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
So if you feel as if you feel too much, well then you are not alone. May these words find you like a friend.
~ Jamie Tworkowski
We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?
~ David Foster Wallace
Only when you can accept that you are alone, will you discover that you are not alone.
~ Leonard Jacobson
You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone.
~ Shonda Rhimes
One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.
~ Rita Dove
You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
~ Thomas Harris
It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.
~ Dave Davies
He who eats alone chokes alone.
~ H. L. Mencken
Sometimes isolation can be shared.
~ Ken Grimwood, Replay
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
~ Alain de Botton
Being alone and being lonely are two different things. (Yasu)
~ Ai Yazawa
The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.
~ Erich Fromm
Connecting with others is rewarding; it makes us feel like we're not alone in the world.
~ Jonah Berger