Quotes About Relationships

Happiness is a hard master—particularly other people's happiness.

People are related to one another, not as total personalities, but as the embodiments of economic functions, or when they are not at work, as irresponsible seekers of entertainment. Subjected to this kind of life, individuals tend to feel lonely and insignificant. Their existence cases to have any point of meaning

Cuando el individuo siente, la comunidad se resiente.

From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.

Bernard was duly grateful (it was an enormous comfort to have his friend again) and also duly resentful (it would be pleasure to take some revenge on Helmholtz for his generosity).

When the Individual feels, the community reels.

In spite of their sadness - because of it, even; for their sadness was the symptom of their love for one another - the three young men were happy.

I decided love was essential. The problem was the timing. Human beings hesitate.

Lenina shook her head. Somehow, she mused, I hadn't been feeling very keen on promiscuity lately. There are times when one doesn't. Haven't you found that too, Fanny?

the goddess of Applied Science has presented the world with another gift, more precious even than these—the means of dissociating love from propagation.

the truth of all that the Savage now said about the worthlessness of friends who could be turned upon so slight a provocation into persecuting enemies.

Happiness is a hard master- particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestioningly, than truth.

These effects of mescalin are the sort of effects you could expect to follow the administration of a drug having the power to impair the efficiency of the cerebral reducing valve. When the brain runs out of sugar, the undernourished ego grows weak, can't be bothered to undertake the necessary chores, and loses all interest in those spatial and temporal relationships which mean so much to an organism bent on getting on in the world.

Here nobody's supposed to belong to more than one person. And if you have people in the ordinary way, the others think you're wicked and anti-social.

el individuo siente, la comunidad se resiente -citó Lenina.

El muchacho no había tenido mala intención. Lo cual, en cierta manera, empeoraba aún más las cosas. Los que le querían bien se comportaban lo mismo que los que le querían mal.

La felicidad es un patrón muy duro, especialmente la felicidad de los demás.

He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.

When the individual feels, the community reels, Lenina pronounced. Well, why shouldn't it reel a bit?

But one does not marry a set of virtues and talents; one marries an individual human being.

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves.

The greatest care is taken to prevent you from loving anyone too much.

Curious that one should be dumb before intimates and open one's mind to an all but stranger.

When the brain runs out of sugar, the undernourished ego grows weak, can't be bothered to undertake the necessary chores, and loses all interest in those spatial and temporal relationships which mean so much to an organism bent on getting on in the world.