False Connections Quotes

God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.

I have nobody. I have surrounded myself with people who are fake just because I need to talk to somebody.

If you can charm everyone it means you don't care about anyone in particular.

Without solid connections between homicides, we may have the reverse problem of believing three local murders are the work of one serial killer when they may actually be the work of three!

Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.

Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or else make false connections

There was nothing lonelier than a man with a million friends.

You meet people and go, 'We're going to be friends forever!' then you get home and can't even remember their name.

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.

I had a lot of those fake friends. You just have to realize it's happening. You can't get caught up in the 'Oh, my God, they want to be my friend, finally' aspect.

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

I've met very lonely people who have 10,000 friends on Facebook. And it's just not real. We've set up this artificial society in cyberspace. And that's supposed to be a community, like a real community. It's supposed to be where people go to get solace or friendship or have fun.

instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.