Human Contact Quotes

34 quotes by 33 authors

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're… — Martha Beck
Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasÃ© or focused on your crotch while jabbering… — Anneli Rufus
If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation is… — Henri Nouwen
All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we find… — John D. Barrow
My intention always has been to arrive at human contact without enforcing authority. A musician, after all, is not a mili- tary officer. What matters… — Carlo Maria Giulini
There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact. — Marie-Louise von Franz
If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact. — Robert McKee
Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way… — Yvon Chouinard
It is important always to remember that virtual contact cannot and must not take the place of direct human contact with people at every level… — Pope Benedict XVI
Hugs are part of everybody life for me. Hug all sorts of people - I don't worry about it looking unmanly or whatever. I think… — A J McLean
My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family,… — Robin Williams
I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact. — Doris Lessing
America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you… — D. H. Lawrence
A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison. — Ugo Betti
It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and… — George Bernard Shaw
Long-haul trucking. Just roaming the country, alone, with audiobooks and podcasts, sleeping in the back of the cab, showering at gas stations at 4 a.m.,… — Mat Johnson
I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally. — Chris Noth
I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important. — Giovanni Ribisi
The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture,… — George Edward Woodberry

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