Quotes About Connection

This will mark the third time that an arrow has entered my chest. The first time brought me to Marianne Engel. The second time separated us. The third time will reunite us.

What is it like to wear another person's skin?" "I don't have a good answer for that," I said. "It hurts." "Can you remember their stories? Can you feel the love that they felt?

You are mine, I am yours: you may be sure of this. You've been locked inside my heart, the key has been thrown away; within it, you must always stay.

Forte come la morte è l'amore, tenace come gli Inferi è la passione." La morte separa l'anima dal corpo, ma l'amore separa ogni cosa dall'anima. (Meister Eckhart - Sermone Nascita eterna)

Sometimes love outlasts even death.

Talking with the mouth of a beast won't ease your pain.

Do you know what the best part of that swim was?" "No." "Knowing that you were on the shore waiting for me.

Dû bist mîn, ich bin dîn, des solt dû gewis sîn, dû bist beslozzen in mînem herzen, verlorn ist das slüzzelîn: dû muost och immer darinne sîn.

When I had touched her that first time, it did not feel like the first time I had touched her.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

We knew something about one another, sure, that we belonged to the same tribe, the markings of which were always visible to those who belong, even if they were invisible to outsiders.

Sometimes I daydream about merging my body with my computer so that I can more fully enter the landscapes of Google Earth, lush surface world without pollution or traffic, planet seen from the vantage point of space and roving surveillance vehicles, a motionless field, magnifying the normal imperfections and irregularities of the earth so that the planet is rendered transparent, misshapen and yet intoxicating in its languishing distinction from the real.

The community of Fire Island is such that you take your place in it for granted, trust that no matter what happens or who it happens with, you will find your way back.

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!

Staten Island

We will conserve what we love, love what we understand and understand what we are taught.

The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.

Friendship often grows out of shared experiences

A work of art is...a bridge, however tenuous, between one mind and another.

If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.

Let my soul in its journey into you Never rest anywhere.

had explicitly been concerned to treat mathematics as if it were a chess game, without asking for a connection with the world. That question was, as it were, always left for someone else to tackle.

As regards the question of why we have bodies at all, why we do not or cannot live free as spirits and communicate as such, we probably could do so but there would be nothing whatever to do. The body provides something for the spirit to look after and use.

They faced each other at opposite ends of an illusion.