Quotes About Connection

Writing with someone mitigates the intense loneliness.

Soon-Yi and I had no interest in knowing about each other. I thought she was a quiet, boring kid, and she thought I was her mom's patsy.

Later, on the great lawn at Tanglewood, under the Big Dipper, listening to the unbearable sadness of Mahler's Fourth, they eventually drifted back into each other's arms, and the crisis faded.

ELLIOT (V.O.) (CONT'D) There's something very lovely and real about Hannah. (tossing his bathrobe aside and lying down on the bed next to Hannah, his hands crossed over his stomach) She gives me a very deep feeling of being part of something. She's a wonderful woman...and I betrayed her.

I'm very proud of my pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

All of this talking about what's up in the sky, or down in hell, for that matter, isn't half as important as what's right here, right now, right in front of your eyes. Things are tough. Folks broke. Kids hungry. Sick. Everything. And people has got to have more faith in one another, believe in each other. There's a spirit of some kind we've all got. That's got to draw us all together.

Love betters what is best

At the heart of living life according to the wisdom of the I Ching is the knowledge that the Universe is alive and aware- aware of itself and aware of you. It may seem strange at first to communicate aloud or silently with All-That-Is, with the Universe itself, but as you become more and more aware that you are being heard, that there is communication going on in both directions, you will come to cherish the gift.

Once you perceive that the Universe is alive, a living, pulsating organism that has awareness and intelligence, vast intelligence, you will come to know that the Universe and everything in it reacts to stimulation-- your stimulation.

Amar es desnudarse de los nombres, rezaba uno de sus poemas expropiados, pero aun así Pig se conformaba con cambiarlos. Uno le cambia el nombre a las personas y a las cosas porque así las convierte en solo suyas.

Amar es desnudarse de los nombres.

somos los más felices mientras dura el abrazo, y hasta un poco después porque un abrazo así tiene que ser mucho más importante que unos vulgares vientos de monz

En castellano se está enamorado, pero en inglés se cae en el amor, y luego se está en él como en el centro de un capullo.

Salir de noche y no mirar la luna es como dar el cuerpo sin alma.

No es acaso el amor una asombrosa, y a veces milagrosa, conjunción de patrañas? ¿No es exacto que menos por menos da más?

Nos pasamos la vida alimentando nuestra soledad para que sea ella quien más tarde nos lleve al otro lado. Amamos de la única manera soportable: como si jamás fuésemos a morirnos.

A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.

I always feel myself being thrust back into loneliness when someone tells me it's cold on a hot day. It isn't good to talk so much about the weather — weather is a highly personal matter, and communication on the subject inevitably fails.

Mold started to grow in my ears because no one ever spoke to me

Your eyes aren't empty mirrors - You reflect human beings. I hope this doesn't make you mortally unhappy.

I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.

Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!

Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in the trade.