Quotes About Connection

Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

I am always in love.

Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.

You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.

You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?

When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.

There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.

I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether they can read or write or not and whether they are alive or dead.

The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.

But did thee feel the earth move?

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.

To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it's over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that's rare, señor. That's rare and valuable." — Ernest Hemingway, from The Complete Short Stories 

I'd like to destroy you a few times in bed.

I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.