Quotes About Connection

Nunca tente compartilhar suas alegrias. As pessoas são solidárias na dor, mas não no prazer.

Lo que los dos hombres tenían en común era el conocimiento de que eran individuos.

Curious that one should be dumb before intimates and open one's mind to an all but stranger.

En la misma reunión, un cóctel, en que yo la conocí. ¿Lo recuerda? No, no lo recuerdo. No recuerdo a nadie de los que participaron en aquella ocasión, salvo a Helen. Cuando se ha estado a punto de ahogarse, uno recuerda quién le salvó, no a los espectadores del muelle.

They are (to quote the words used by Dr. J. R. Smythies in a recent paper in the American Journal of Psychiatry) "the work of a highly differentiated mental compartment, without any apparent connection, emotional or volitional, with the aims, interests, or feelings of the person concerned.

Talking? But what about?" Walking and talking—that seemed a very odd way of spending an afternoon.

For their sadness was a symptom of their love for one another—

But I do," he insisted. "It makes me feel as though . . ." he hesitated, searching for words with which to express himself, "as though I were more me, if you see what I mean. More on my own, not so completely a part of something else. Not just a cell in the social body. Doesn't it make you feel like that, Lenina?" But

Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma: Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny; Love's as good as soma.

You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt

The Universe is the looking-glass of the soul.

I thought I would stand myself a little dinner. I hadn't quite enough sense to know that what I really wanted was human companions. There aren't such things. Every man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease - that of thinking.

There is no bond that can unite the divided but love.

He is in me, and I in Him! Mine is the crystal radiance That filleth æther to the brim Wherein all stars and suns may dance. I am the beautiful and glad, Rejoicing in the golden day.

What do I mean when I say that I think I was Eliphaz Lévi ? No more than that I possess some of his most essential characteristics, and that some of the incidents in his life are remembered by me as my own. There doesn't seem any impossibility about these bundles of Sankhara being shared by two or more persons. We certainly do not know enough of what actually takes place to speak positively on any such point. Don't lose any sleep over it.

I hadn't quite enough sense to know that what I really wanted was human companions. There aren't such things. Every man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease -that of thinking.

When we've all finished talking, there's something that never utters a word, but goes right down through the earth, plumb to the centre.

Like clouds in rain, like seas Exultant as they roll, We mix in ecstasies, And, as breeze melts in breeze, Thy soul becomes my soul.

Cuando decía «abuela» no era una palabra recitada, era un grito que le venía de dentro y desde lejos.

Si los hombres supieran lo que se puede conseguir con una lágrima, los querríamos más y los arruinaríamos menos.

Hay algo que se desea más que una primera noche pasada junto a una amante: una segunda

Me gustaría aprender a decirle «gracias», pero sé que nunca encontraré el tono ni la voz que busco para expresar hasta qué punto mi vida es especial porque su forma de mirarme la hace así. Me gustaría decirle que si no lo hago es porque no tengo esa dimensión en la voz y no sé dónde se aprende. Y que qué suerte habernos encontrado. Qué buena suerte la nuestra.