38 Quotes About Socializing
- Author Virginia Woolf
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How then did it work out, this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it was liking one felt, or disliking?
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- Author Katherine McIntyre
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Fine, fine, I’ll indulge in this ‘socializing’ thing you always rave about.
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- Author Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Socializing is more positive than being alone, that’s why meetings are so popular. People don’t like being alone. That would be, however, an important skill to learn...
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- Author Amy Levy
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A curious, dreamlike sensation stole over Gertrude at finding herself once again in a roomful of people; and as an old war-horse is said to become excited at the sound of battle, so she felt the social instincts rise strongly within her as the familiar, forgotten pageant of nods and becks and wreathed smiles burst anew upon her.
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- Author Shirley Jackson
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In my own experience, contacts with the big world outside the typewriter are puzzling and terrifying; I don’t think I like reality very much. Principally, I don’t understand people outside; people in books are sensible and reasonable, but outside there is no predicting what they will do.
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- Author Edward Gorey
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. . . when I talk to people I really like to talk to them, and not just exchange pleasantries and wonder which of us is going to try to get away first. Most social occasions leave me less than enthralled.
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- Author John Adams
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Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them.
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- Author Alicia Jasinska
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Eva had reached her limit for human interaction.She could feel the climbing tension in her muscles. the sharp stab of irritation every time another person spoke, the rising desire to pluck one of the hairpins out of her braids and shove it through someone's throat.
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- Author Gail Honeyman
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Social interaction, it appeared, was surprisingly expensive.
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