Maya Angelou:

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Taylor Swift:

I'd like to point out that people are still buying albums, but now they're buying just a few of them. They are buying only the ones that hit them like an arrow through the heart or have made them feel strong or allowed them to feel like they really aren't alone in feeling so alone.

Alain de Botton:

There can be no end to our sense of emptiness and incompleteness. This is a truth chiselled indelibly into the script of life. Choosing who to marry or commit ourselves to is therefore merely a case of identifying which particular variety of suffering we would most like to sacrifice ourselves for, rather than an occasion miraculously to escape from grief.

Emma Healey:

Our greatest contemporary inventions are all just new and more complicated ways to be lonely for and about each other, at speeds that once seemed unimaginable.

The only thing in this world more difficult than caring about other people is finding other people who genuinely care about you. It's hard enough to find a job that pays your rent and doesn't grind your soul down into a tiny sliver, never mind finding one where your experience and skills are valued, given weight or room to grow. It's hard enough to find peers who can stand to be around you, let alone friends who think the things you care about are important and worthy of attention.

David Foster Wallace:

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default-setting, the "rat race" -- the constant gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing.