Quotes About Connection

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to fall upon their ears.

Where words leave off, music begins.

The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.

The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column of the old Roman times, an old tower of Lombardy, a weather-beaten Gothic piece of a pillar understands me well. But I am a ruin myself, wandering among ruins.

Želimo li promijeniti ljude, moramo ih ljubiti. Naš utjecaj seže samo donde dokle seže naša ljubav.

Iemand toelaten in je leven betekent hem of haar permissie geven je te kwetsen, wat onherroepelijk zal gebeuren. Hij zal jou kwetsen, jij zal hem kwetsen. Hij zal jou teleurstellen, jij zal hem teleurstellen.

Ieder mens is uiteindelijk altijd alleen, je bent eenzaam als je degene met wie je alleen bent, geen prettig gezelschap vindt

Agape mou,' he began in a voice husky with emotion. 'You crept beneath my skin, affected me as no other woman did, or ever will, and you invaded my heart, my soul. Until you became the very air I breathe. You. Only you.

Darling," he went on, smiling happily at her dismay, "meet the girls.

You will come back to us?' 'Yes, I will come back. I belong to Ingo now.

These two would never understand each other. I was the only link between them and each of them tugged on it hard in the hope that the other would let go.

People say how amazing communications are these days, because you can feel as if you're in the same room as someone in Australia.But you don't really feel that way.You keep telling each other news about your lives,but it feels false.

I am not yet sure that I can live without her

For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister

We are creatures of story.

They stand close for a while, not touching, but breathing each other's breath. The city is silent now, as if for peace.

I did not know what breath meant until she died. It was everything that gave me quickness and life: it was thought, feeling, animation. Without it there was nothing.

From every book invisible threads reach out to other books; and as the mind comes to use and control those threads the whole panorama of the world's life, past and present, becomes constantly more varied and interesting, while at the same time the mind's own powers of reflection and judgment are exercised and strengthened.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. Japanese Proverb

And when two people understand each other in their inmost hearts, their words are sweet and strong, like the fragrance of orchids. I Ching

Across the gateway of my heart I wrote, "No thoroughfare." But love came laughing by and cried, "I enter everywhere." Herbert Shipman

Familiar acts are beautiful through love. Percy Bysse Shelley

I think there is in friendship, an instant recognition – a kind of loving. It needs just a word, in passing, the touch of a hand – yet parting is loss and the tiny ache of regret stays with us always.