Bernard Sumner Quotes

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.

It's always been very important for me to be surrounded by people. It's never been enough for me to be successful alone. I want to be around people my own age who are also doing things I can learn from.

I feel we have the opportunity of being part of a new and emerging category for human co-experience.

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone.

You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J.R. Isidore

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.

I like being around people.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

God has decided, for his own good reasons, that people are not transformed outside of community.

I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.

Music teaches people to work together, which is maybe one of the most important skills.

I guess a lot of things I make are relationship movies. Maybe all movies are relationship movies, because they're all about how we relate to each other.

If you're sitting across the table from someone, the geometry of the situation says 'confrontation.' If you're walking with somebody, you're heading in the same direction, and the spatial dance you're doing is a little more cooperative.

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

Men are not tied together by papers and seals. They are led to associate by resemblances, by conformities, by sympathies.

Since men are social by nature they are meant to live with others and to work for one another's welfare

Isolation is no longer possible or desirable.

The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

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

I'm really interested in how we understand each other - and whether we can understand each other.

Twitter helped others to see me as a human being. And showed me their humanity, too.

Find like-minded people and try not to be individualized to the point where you try to fight it all and think about it all on your own.