Social Interaction Quotes

“Rulemaking and rule-breaking depend on ongoing negotiations between tradition and innovation. Rules can be both a basis for social interaction and a cause of restraint. Constant reflection and adaptation ensure that they remain significant and reasonable. ("When forgetting the rules of the game")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.”
― Oscar Wilde, Witticisms of Oscar Wilde;

“I want to say, Don't bother asking me anything. I want to say, There is nothing underneath.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“But I guess that was the whole problem, at that point, my inability to deal with normal human interaction.”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This

“Yeah. I don’t know, I always feel like I can’t figure out how to just stop watching and actually join.”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

“Chronically awkward people can feel like everyone else received a secret instruction manual at birth titled "How to be Socially Competent." For the awkward person, this dreamy manual would provide easy-to-understand, step-by-step instructions on how to gracefully navigate social life, avoid embarrassing faux pas, and rid oneself of the persistent anxiety that comes with being awkward.”
― Ty Tashiro, Awkward: The Science of Why We're Socially Awkward and Why That's Awesome

“If we accept our fallibility and limitations and remain humble in our social interactions and self-perception, we can release the ego-driven need to always want to have the final say and instead accomplish our pursuit of harmony. ("Esprit d’escalier" - " Staircase Wit")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“All social interactions require some loss of freedom.”
― Erol Ozan

“The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know.”
― Renata Adler, Speedboat

“Social media wasn't usually my thing, as it had the word "social" in it, but I'd taken to the platform after a personal tragedy. I had a cat, the cat died, and now what I used to say to my cat all day, I tweeted. It helped that 140 characters was roughly my preferred limit when it came to human interaction.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death

“I became an artist because I was terrible with people.”
― Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

“Why, oh why doth people gazeth into their damn'd phones in a restaurant when there is good fayre and wond'rful company to be enjoy'd?”
― Kevin Ansbro

“The social joys of making a meal with friends are known to all who have done so/”
― Billy Baker, We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends

“If a man postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the conversation of his new friends [are] based... he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent. He will assume, at first only by his manner, but presently by his words, all sorts of cynical and sceptical attitudes which are not really his. But... they may become his. All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“As much as we complain about other people, there is nothing worse for mental health than a social desert.”
― Charles Montgomery, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

“In our quest to become more connected we have actually created a disturbing disconnect where real social interaction has been abandoned in favor of the immediate gratification afforded by electronic devices.”
― Michael ONeill, Road Work: Images And Insights Of A Modern Day Explorer

“What this means is that the lonelier a person gets, the less adept they become at navigating social currents. Loneliness grows around them, like mould or fur, a prophylactic that inhibits contact, no matter how badly contact is desired. Loneliness is accretive, extending and perpetuating itself. Once it becomes impacted, it is by no means easy to dislodge. This is why I was suddenly so hyper-alert to criticism, and why I felt so perpetually exposed hunching in on myself even as I walked anonymously through the streets, my flip-flops slapping on the ground.”
― Olivia Laing, The Lonely City / To the River

“Under the spell of alcohol your differences recede.”
― Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

“In reality, there is no such thing as absolute freedom. The rules of social interaction determine one's freedom.”
― Eraldo Banovac

“When spending quality time with friends, freely settle down for deep and meaningful conversations about any topics. This can help you maintain a strong bond with your soulmates.”
― Saaif Alam

“The ontogenesis of our conscious self and the concinnity of our shadow spring directly from our seedlings saturated in the rich milieu of our nation’s external and internal conflicts and our personalized social, political, and cultural interactions. We either actively or passively participate in the explosion of culturally significant experiences. We exist in a fish bowl where the aquatic pool of collective experiences influences us. We are each bystanders in the present chapter of history’s bloodbath, standing either as willing or unwilling witnesses to the vertiginous acceleration in violence that rocks the cradle of civilization. We cannot witness blood spilling in the streets and be present in an age of rampant desecration of forest, seas, rivers, tundra, and deserts of this world without holding ourselves accountable for either our activism or passivity. Our acceptance or resistance to the pervasive cultural chauvinism of our age frames us.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Someone said to me "You will always find the way to come back home," and i said to him "Yes
only if you ask the people.”
― Robi Aulia Abdi

“Victor made an amused sound from the threshold.

Nora’s eyes flicked to him. “What? What is it?”

“I told them you were bad with people.”

“I’m not bad with people.”

“You aren’t great with them,” Deirdre said.”
― S.R. Hughes, The War Beneath

“Amat menyakitkan hati kalau kita mengadukan kesusahan yang kita rasakan kepada seseorang yang kita kira akan memperhatikan kita, akan menghibur atau meringankan beban kita, tetapi seseorang yang kita harapkan itu mengeluarkan keluhan yang sama. Seolah dia menolak kita, seolah dia hendak menunjukkan bahwa dia lebih sengsara daripada kita.”
― Nh. Dini, Pada Sebuah Kapal

“([Robin Dunbar] also found the optimal laughter group size is three people. For a conversation, the number is four.)”
― Billy Baker

“Hearing her name, she gathered herself within the span of normalcy, just barely escaping the extra beat that would have made it weird. "Hey," she said. "I'm good, good.”
― Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer

“Explain why you're refusing to participate in an activity, or to accept an offer made to you.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Statism overvalues human rationality, disregards the complexity of social interaction, and ignores the learning from the system of trial and error that has produced economic development and peace among nations through trade relations.”
― Prof. Vinícius Montgomery de Miranda

“Incorporating principles of emotional intelligence into transformative teaching practices equips students with essential skills for navigating social interactions, managing stress, and cultivating empathy, thus promoting a positive classroom culture conducive to learning.”
― Asuni LadyZeal