Connection Quotes

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

John Donne

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

William James

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

Albert Schweitzer

I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.

Brene Brown

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Albert Schweitzer

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone.

Genesis 2:18

I have never found the companion that was as companionable as solitude.

Thoreau

Being alone is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

If you want to go quickly, go alone, if you want to go far, go together.

Loneliness is the call of God to your heart.

The opposite of addiction is connection.

Johann Hari

When any of us begins to approach the world in a spirit of compassion and connection, you will find people who will open up to you.

Johann Hari

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

Communication is merely an exchange of information, but connection is an exchange of our humanity.

Sean Stephenson

Love your neighbour as yourself.

Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.

Maya Angelou

Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important.

Jung

You can’t whistle a symphony.

A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

E B White

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.

Douglas Copeland

What should young people do with their lives tdoay? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Kurt Vonnegut

I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest.

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

Joseph Fort Newton

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

Mark Twain

Of all the things that wisdom provides for living one’s entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus