Social Life Quotes

“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”
― Voltaire

“When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you're making.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“I suck at being social. I think one thing and my mouth says something completely different, like I'm possessed. By a whole lot of stupid.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.”
― Agatha Christie, Mrs. McGinty's Dead

“Dogs have the power to transform our lives, nurturing trust, ease, and new perspectives. They invite us to reconsider our ways of living and connecting with the world, offering a respite from the complexities of human social life. ("I am young and have no dog")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“My definition of democracy is -
A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary changes in the social life are brought about without bloodshed.
That is the real test. It is perhaps the severest test. But when you are judging the quality of the material you must put it to the severest test.”
― Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual

“Our self-esteem – be it low or high – has its influence on our thoughts, relationships, profession, and social life. When it is channeled in the right direction, you will find enough confidence to move out of your comfort zone and explore new possibilities.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“She could be lively only in the midst of life; in isolation she dwindled to a shadow.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig

“The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary. Wherever possible, he plays his own game within their framework; this makes the fewest waves.”
― Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil

“One of the problems of social life is to know what to say to one another when we meet; every man and woman's desire is to appear sympathetic and clever, and this makes conversation difficult, because, taking us all round, we are neither sympathetic nor clever.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“The best thing about a busy social life? It helps you avoid reality.”
― Gemma Burgess A Girl Like You

“Oh, Vasu. People always talk; you have to learn to ignore them.”
― Farahad Zama, Not All Marriages are Made in Heaven

“But Anna was not to be won over. She had a curious shrinking from commonplace people, and particularly from the young lady of her day. She would not go into company because of the ill-at-ease feeling other people brought upon her. And she never could decide whether it were her fault or theirs. She half respected these other people, and continuous disillusion maddened her. She wanted to respect them. Still she thought the people she did not know were wonderful. Those she knew seemed always to be limiting her, tying her up in little falsities that irritated her beyond bearing. She would rather stay at home and avoid the rest of the world, leaving it illusory.”
― David Herbert Lawrence, The Rainbow: Annotated

“I was never one to connect. I've been that way my entire life. I went to work, kept my head down, and came home. I let old friendships fizzle. I orbited my family and all of you like a distant planet--there and yet nearly impossible to reach. I know I can't survive alone.”
― Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

“Be the kind of a friend you would like to be with.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Even people who've got a better life shall feel unfulfilled when they start seeing so much shit happening in others' lives through so-called social media.”
― Giridhar Alwar, My Quest For Happy Life

“That's money, the substance that makes the world real. There's something so corrupt and sexy about it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I don't know what you're expecting, but ultimately, most people in high school have this obsession with the 'high schooler' you often seen in fiction, so they put on an act in an attempt to become that. And it just leaves you cold.”
― Wataru Watari, やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。5

“Never hate social hierarchies”
― Arif Naseem

“It was not so much that he had anything against people in general, more that he saw no purpose in deliberately setting up occasions on which you stood around trying to think of something to say. Moreover, the whole process was self-perpetuating; the guest became the host in an act of social revenge and thus it was on for ever. The only sensible course was never to start it in the first place.”
― Penelope Lively, Passing On

“Every level of our being calls for play and danger.”
― Helmuth Plessner, Grenzen der Gemeinschaft

“Remember, it’s your job to look for something cool in everyone you meet; it’s not their job to show you. This is life, not a fucking sales convention.”
― Mark Manson

“And this is the ultimate dating advice lesson — man, woman, gay, straight, trans, furry, whatever — the only real dating advice is self-improvement. Everything else is a distraction, a futile battle in the grey area, a prolonged ego trip. Because, yes, with the right tools and performance, you may be able to con somebody into sleeping with you, dating you, even marrying you. But you will have won the battle by sacrificing the war, the war of long-term happiness.”
― Mark Manson

“You always move in the same circle of people no matter how many turns you seem to make”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada

“As a salaried employee you can make me work eighty hour weeks, but we will be parting company soon.”
― Steven Magee

“The trouble with our social life is that we are always seeking for a reward, and more frequently for one enormously out of proportion to the merit of the deed itself. When this is not forthcoming, we are dissatisfied, and this dissatisfaction causes all sorts of trouble in our daily walk of life.”
― Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, The Training Of The Zen Buddhist Monk

“It is through the close interaction of the laity and the monks that the essence of Zen penetrates social life.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength”
― George Orwell

“It is easy to criticize the antisocial, but hard to get close to know what keeps them at bay.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia