Quotes About Connection

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

Sexual intercourse is a poor substitute for masturbation.

There are a lot of people in the world who are not loved and we must make an inconspicuous dash to them to save them, to help them. To live a life and not be loved is a terrible thing. And we can spare them that if we are attentive.

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me.

It is possible to share a dial-up Internet connection by using software tools, but it's also possible to push a stalled car up a muddy hill.

I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

Clarence looks at her closely. He picks up his soda and sucks on the straw until it makes that slurping sound. He puts it aside and stares into her soul.

I'll send you a postcard, partner.

Clarence is completely taken aback. They meet in a long, passionate lovers' kiss. Their kiss breaks and slowly the world comes back to normal.

I still should want to watch the movie and enjoy it. Certain actors can play grotesque bad guys, yet they still have a connection to the audience. We still enjoy them as performers. They do cruel deeds, they're monsters, but we enjoy their monsters because when they're on screen we known something exciting will happen.

The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

Above all, the very world view, "Every town our home town, every[one our kin - ?????? ??? ??????? ??????]" can only emanate from a civilizational wisdom which has seen places, found merit in give and take and is enriched by travels, journeys and migrations.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Love builds bridges where there are none.

Alan Loy McGinnis, author of the best-selling The Friendship Factor, says that America's leading psychologists and therapists estimate that only 10 percent of all men ever have any real friends.2

Here we find further argument for Gotagga's supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?

The world is a circle that possesses as many centres as it does men.

Apaga si quieres tu luz, yo descubriré tu oscuridad y la amaré.

Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you Those who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart

And you will never be lonely either," said Anna. "You shall come and live with us." "No, darling," Lucy said quietly. Impossible to explain, even to Anna, that loneliness was not a matter of solitude but of the spirit and often much greater in company for that very reason.

Loneliness was not a matter of solitude but of the spirit and often much greater in company for that very reason.