Quotes About Connection

Here I am. Not leaving any more. Home.

Be with someone you don't want to be without.

This voyage of ours is lonely--the more so if we find a companion, only to suffer the bitterest loss. In truth we are alone.

Por qué lo menos original que podemos decirnos uno a otro sigue siendo lo que más anhelamos oír?

An ordinary miracle, your body changing under my hands. And yet, how to believe in the obvious surprise? Extraordinary, unlikely that you should want me.

I know how it is. Saying too much. Saying too little. Who says enough? Just enough? My closest conversations are bad translations. That's not what I meant--not what I meant at all.

When you dig under the surface, past the necessities, men and women don't mix.

De ce masura iubirii este pierderea ei?

and putting on his white gloves so that the fingerprints would not show he tapped at my heart and I thought he said his name was Love.

the imprint of another life, and although you can never have that life, your fingers trace the space where it might have been, and your fingers learn a kind of braille.

I looked back at you. These moments that are talismans and treasure

El perro corría al lado de chico, y contempló en el cielo despejado los perros estelares, fríos y bellos, y supo que, pidas lo que pidas, no se puede pedir nada mejor que el amor

Las palabras son la parte del silencio que puede ser hablada

History has had you - and me too. My hand has brushed against yours for centuries.

He's only a dog. Yes but he has found me out.

You are still the colour of my blood. You are my blood. When I look in the mirror it's not my own face I see. Your body is twice. Once you once me. Can I be sure which is which?

He's only a dog. Yes but he has found me out.

El amor es tan fuerte como la muerte.

Bombay. Cairo. Paris. New York. I've been to those places now. The curious thing is that no matter how different they are, people are all preoccupied with the same things, that is, the same thing; how to live. We have to eat, we want to make money, but in every pause the question returns: How shall I live?

What other places are there in the world than those discovered on a lover's body?

I kissed her, and forgot death.

Love affairs are discoveries of new worlds.

I say I'm in love with her, what does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly she explains me to myself; like genius she is ignorant of what she does.

I would love you as a bird loves flight, as meat loves salt, as a dog loves chase, as water finds its own level. Or I would not love you at all.