Quotes About Connection

From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power.

You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

The bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation

you will always love, and you will always be loved

The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

Friendship...is not something you learn in school,but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.

Only love can keep anyone alive...

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

So many things are unexplainable, and how is it that we know a life, except that we know our own, and it is brought into focus by the death of those around us. (less)

He says to us something about being hungry and how he met his wife when he was hungry and then they crossed some border together into Austria and then she died.

It bothered him to think that the listeners might look at him as a broken down reel, trapped by sameness of his grief. Afterwards he would realize he had left out whole chunks of what he truly wanted to say.

struck him early on that people were afraid of the enemy because they were terrified that their lives might get diluted, that they might lose themselves in the tangle of knowing each other.

Het was krankzinnig hoe klein de wereld in wezen was.

A book is completed only when its finished by a reader.

Being with you, and not being with you, is the only way I have to measure time. ~ BORGES ~

Someone or other was going to get torn asunder. And yet why shouldn't they fall in love, if even just for a short while.

Survival, in fact, is about the connection between things. [Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism]

I don't know the words for how she looked at me -- there are few words -- it was a welling up, a rising, a lifting up on the surface from the water; it was the sort of thing that could not be told.

Everything falls into the hands of music eventually. The only thing that ever rescued me was listening to a big voice.

His face had softened: as if just being a moment with her had relaxed him, allowed him to be someone different. I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You lean across and kiss the years because they're the things that matter.