Quotes About Connection

Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire. He was not worthy, not... Their eyes for a moment met. What treasures hers promised! A queen's ransom of temperament. Hastily he looked away, disengaged his imprisoned arm. He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.

We live together,we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand and hand into the arena; they are crucified alone.

Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made.

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude.

What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.

What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scripture, I learnt in woods and fields. I have had no other masters than the beeches and the oaks." And

And as I looked, it became very clear that this five-and-ten-cent ship was in some way connected with human pretensions. This suffocating interior of a dime-store ship was my own personal self; these gimcrack mobiles of tin and plastic were my personal contributions to the universe.

There was a silence. 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.

The last end of man, the ultimate reason for human existence, is unitive knowledge of the divine Ground

Leaving you defenceless against the full consciousness of the fact that you can't do without your fellow humans, and that, when you're with them, they make you sick.

Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge…

Every one belongs to every one else.

Everything that happens is intrinsically like the man it happens to.

everybody happy and no one ever sad or angry, and every one belonging to every one else...

Una dintre funcÈ›iile principale ale unui prienten este s? sufere(într-o form? mai blând?, simbolic?) pedepsele pe care am dori s? le aplic?m duÈ™manilor noÈ™tri, dar nu izbutim.

For I am you and you are I.

He loved her infinitely, and for that reason was able to love everything in the world as much as he loved her.

So long as it remains out of touch with the rest of the world, an ideal society can be a viable society.

it is natural to believe in God when you're alone—quite alone, in the night, thinking about death . . ." "But people never are alone now," said Mustapha Mond. "We make them hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it's almost impossible for them ever to have it.

Cuando el individuo siente, la comunidad se resiente.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences

When the Individual feels, the community reels.

Words are the thread on which we string our experiences.