False Connection Quotes

To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.

The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.

The thing about addiction is you think you're getting off on people, and you're not, and the only person you're fooling is yourself.

The internet creates a mask and you are talking to people who you don't necessarily know.

We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love.

Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.

Technology and communicating with people online or through a phone or through social media - it's a false sense of intimacy and connection.

If you look at all the technology we're interconnected with every day, all this complex technology that connects humanity, it actually doesn't connect us.

Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?

To idolise a person means you don't get to know them, and the idea that you can become one is a myth, and it also means that you don't need to talk to one another because you're the same person.

I think I made you up inside my head.

Interesting to me, at least, is that often you meet certain king of people and you feel, in their company, extremely warm and hopeful that they care about you, but you also think that they probably have 10 other people they put their attention to. You think, "Wow, this person is making me feel so special and like they really love me." But the savvy part of me thinks, "They probably do that to everybody."

Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."

I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.

When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.

I'm glad you asked. It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.

The military said we'll be able to confirm Saddam is dead with DNA testing. Apparently we have a sample of his DNA. So Monica Lewinsky is working for the CIA?