Collapse Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

When we [people] are operating from the belief that we're not connected, it feels so dangerous and scary and vulnerable and awful.

— Alanis Morissette

I fear that our loss of a sense of connection with, and duties to, each other leaves us unable to effectively address growing inequality…

— David Wong

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands…

— Anton Chekhov

Society becomes very destructive.

— Ai Weiwei

We have been crafted by disaster to push out to the utmost horizon to find out what's on the other side of it. That's…

— Jonathan Nolan

One interesting thing I found was that if you take an affluent modern society and collapse it during a crisis, like a war or…

— Sebastian Junger

We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.

— Pema Chodron

Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of 'others' and 'our' problems are…

— Janez Drnovsek

Simple exchanges can break down walls between us, for when people come together and speak to one another and share a common experience, then…

— Barack Obama

A desire for social connection is fundamentally hardwired into our psychology, and so being deprived of it has devastating mental and physical consequences. Yet…

— Owen Jones

We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.

— Mark Doty

We cannot get from anyone else the things we need to fill the endless terrible need, not to be dissolved, not to sink back…

— Ellen Gilchrist