False Intimacy Quotes

There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.

Pretending is the grease of non-relationships. Pretending is how you and I get through the day without ever having to know each other. When I walk in the room, you say to me, 'How are you?' Well, you don't want to know. And, frankly, I don't want to tell you. So I just say, 'Fine,' and you go, 'Fine.' And off we go.

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

Yes I got into things with girls who only liked me because of who I was. But I learnt my lesson quickly.

I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting.

Usually when I see someone famous, for some reason, I think I know them.

You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.

The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.

If you engage with the Holy spirit because you want to merely be effective in ministry, then you're developing professional intimacyand what do we call people who are intimate as a profession?

Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend.

The common error today is to bring God so close that we strip Him of His "godness." We think we have him figured out. So God becomes our pal, our buddy, our Divine Butler." from "Dug Down Deep

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.

When affection only speaks, truth is not always there.

I make them all my girlfriends. I just express to each and every one of them every chance I get that I have millions of girlfriends, my fans.

My friends were raised by their maids. They didn't see their fathers, who used to travel for work, and there were facades of family vacations. I have grown up to be completely intolerant of fake relationships. That's because of how my parents were.

Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.

As much as heartbreak music might be therapeutic, we all want love and long for that feeling. So if a song can give you that feeling, even without being in love, that's amazing.

When you're really famous, there's very little authenticity in people, so you prefer the company of children.

Technology and communicating with people online or through a phone or through social media - it's a false sense of intimacy and connection.

Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first people in history to ever get it exactly right.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.

I think technology gives the illusion that you are connecting with people, social media particularly.

One of the classic mistakes is we think if we get closer to someone by just listening to all of their relationship woes, we're going to suddenly end up romantically involved.