Quotes About Connection

A man needs understanding because he is existentially alone. He stares into the darkness. That was the difference between men and women, Leo thought. Men need groups and gangs and sport and clubs and institutions and women because men know that there is only nothingness and self-doubt. Women were always trying to make a connection, build a relationship. As though one human being could know another.

I wondered how anyone finds closeness when violence is so near it.

Spike came forward and put her arms around me. 'One day, tens of millions of years from now, someone will find me rusted into the mud of a world they have never seen, and when they crumble me between their fingers, it will be you they find.

You can pick up a book but a book can throw you across the room. A book can move you from a comfortable armchair to a rocky place where the sea is. A book can separate you from your husband, your wife, your children, all that you are. It can heal you out of a lifetime of pain. Books are kinetic, and like all huge forces, need to be handled with care.

Families, real ones, are chairs and tables and the right number of cups, but I had no means of joining one, and no means of dismissing my own.

Often when she liked a picture she found that she was liking some part of herself, some part of her that was in accord with the picture

He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)

In cetatea cuvintelor despre care v-am povestit, mirosul de fragi era mirosul caracteristic casei despre care inca nu v-am povestit.

The line between life and death is a couple of inches at most. The width of a door that connects two rooms.

Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her

It is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost.

Our sweetest existence is relative and collective and our true self is not entirely in us. Such is man's constitution in this life that he never succeeds in truly enjoying himself without the help of other people.

One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.

My lack of success with women has always come from loving them too much

You must give your own time, attention, affection, your very self; for whatever you do, people always perceive that your money is not you.

Wise men, if they try to speak their language to the common herd instead of its own, cannot possibly make themselves understood.

nada enlaza tanto los corazones como llorar juntos.

Cuando por casualidad encuentro alguno que ha escapado a las instrucciones comunes, o que al no conocer mi cara no me muestra ninguna aversión, el honesto saludo de ese solo me restituye de la actitud arisca de los demás. Los olvido para no ocuparme sino de él, y me imagino que tiene una de esas almas como la mía, donde el odio no podría penetrar.

Wees minnaar van een ziel.

pero no ha dejado de quererme sino al dejar de existir; nuestra amistad sólo ha terminado con su vida.

Ne veut-on pas au moins apprendre de l'objet qu'on aime si l'on est aimé ?

Non, il n'y a point de jouissances pareilles à celles que peut donner une honnête femme qu'on aime ; tout est faveur auprès d'elle.

People think they come together in the spectacle, and it is here that they are isolated.