Aldous Huxley Quotes

I remind myself that I'm always more satisfied by human interaction than by a digital connection.

We are all a unique person with everyone we meet.

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

It’s the people you hold closest who have the most power to make you bleed.

The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.

I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.

The power of being in the physical presence of another person delivers real benefits.

… people never become a mass, they remain entities, and so you are able to feel human suffering and make others feel it because it is represented to you by individuals

I like to connect with people through my work. That's my favorite way - meetings of the minds, fans at a show. Those are nice mediated ways of hanging out.

There is enormous value in face to face interaction.

When you meet someone, there's an initial reaction and then as you get to know them, things change, things deepen, or they go the other way.

People complain not because something sucks. People complain because they're looking for empathy and to feel connected with those around them. Unfortunately, complaining is maybe the least useful way to connect with other human beings.

We all like to believe we are completely self-sufficient, but at the end of it all, we're all searching for a human connection, something to make it all feel a bit more worthwhile.

Guys are much happier when someone puts a limit on their behavior and causes them to make a real connection with another person.

The eyes are so telling. That's how you engage with people and bond with them. I love direct, strong eye contact.

This may be a bit of a broad statement, but I don't think there's anyone that I've met that I haven't created a bit of a deep relationship with. It's a really lovely thing to create a relation with people that might not anticipate that closeness. And that's kind of the light of my life, getting to be close to people.

I think that sharing experiences with a person is very valuable, because it allows you to have a bond to become closer.

People think it's not necessary to talk to another human being, and that's the part of it that I don't like. Some people will go up and want to talk to you about the music, which is cool; they're enthusiastic about the songs and know stuff about it, or, 'I really like your music. Nice to meet you.'

With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.

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

To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?

Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.

Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association

In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.

Perhaps what makes friendship and love exciting is the continuing discovery of another personality.