Quotes About Connection

So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

A friend is a present you give yourself.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

No one like one's mother and father ever lived.

It has taken me the time since you diedto discover you are as human as I am…if I am.

We wished our two souls might return like gulls to the rock. In the end, the water was too cold for us.

For a week my heart has pointed elsewhere: it brings us here tonight, and ties our hands– if we leaned forward, and should dip a finger into this river's momentary black flow, infinite small stars would break like fish. from "The Charles River

You lie in my insomniac arms, as if you drank sleep like coffee.

What we love we are.

The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.

They are expressions of faith, and they stand for man's struggle to relate himself to his past and to his God. With

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone.

In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

I stand naked when I draw. God holds my hand and we sing together.