Michael De Luca Quotes

If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone.

We hunger for connection to a larger community.

When we laugh out loud and we realize that there are others who think the same as us, then we feel better.

We humans are not born alone; joining and being active in a club whose members share your passion for ideas and get your jokes is one of the great joys of life.

I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.

At the end of the day, humans are social animals and we are at our best when we get to do things with others who appreciate and enjoy what we enjoy. It's what keeps us human.

I sing my life. It's like I'm having group therapy 350 days a year, and the people who come to the show get that, and they're there for that - whether it's to be lifted up, or to be lifted out, or just entertained or inspired, or to feel not so alone.

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you're seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems.

That's my message: I'm not alone, and neither is anyone else.

A lot of the things that we do in life are to find connection.

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we're all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate.

The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.

I am no longer a shuddering speck of existence, alone in the darkness;--I belong to them and they to me; we all share the same fear and the same life...I could bury my face in them, in these voices, these words that have saved me and will stand by me.

Suffering is easier to endure when shared.

This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own isolation and find strength, and comfort, and warmth for and in each other. This is what human beings do. This is what we live for, the way horses live to run.

My favorite thing about going to concerts has always been looking around and thinking that there's a lot of people in here that are very much like me, a lot of people in here I could have a full conversation with.

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.