Quotes About Connection

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

Do not fear the digital world, it will not kill us all.

Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

We substitute, or we rather hide, this fear of real intimacy by a superficial kind of friendliness, which is quite nice, but nevertheless, very shallow.

There is a community of the spirit . . . Open your hands if you want to be held . . . Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking . . . Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.

We are lovers, fear and I. She calls to me, and I let her in.

Fear is the brother of hate.

Never fear being alone, because you never are.

So when things start going badly, you're invested in the characters in a way I think amplifies the horror and the fear because you're invested.

I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.

Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one's spirit, the more vulnerable it is.

Take responsibility and make a relationship the best it can be. We're all afraid of being hurt. Get rid of that fear. Be in the moment and enjoy the relationship - or you'll ruin it.

To stand emotionally open before the world & give of our hearts without fear of hurt or demand of reciprocity - this is the ultimate act of human courage.

It was as though in these last minutes together - when they had so much to say - they could say nothing of the least significance, for fear it open the floodgates.

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

Intimacy. We hunger for it, but we also fear it.

I had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course, maybe it was because I always seemed to know everyone in the audience.

I ached for the difference between Carlisle and me - that he could touch her so gently, without fear, knowing he would never harm her.

Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't appreciate having.