Quotes About Connection

Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.

Life gives us but one friend,

Dac? lumina e prima dragoste a vie?ii, dragostea nu este oare lumina inimii?

On the morrow of my wedding we shall be parted for a long time; but, Daniel, you are of stuff to understand me. Friendship can subsist in the absence of the friend.

Les trois femmes, saisies de pitié, pleuraient: les larmes sont aussi contagieuses que peut l'être le rire.

Há, sem dúvida, pessoas que não têm o mesmo aspecto nem o mesmo valor, quando separadas das pessoas, das coisas, dos lugares que lhes servem de moldura.

Bei Liebschaften ist es ganz so wie in den Ehen. Der Betroffene erfährt immer alles zuletzt.

Only just now she said to me, 'I am very happy, papa!' When they say 'father' stiffly, it sends a chill through me; but when they call me 'papa,' it brings all the old memories back. I feel most their father then; I even believe that they belong to me, and to no one else.

N'y a-t-il pas des pensées, des actions qui, en amour, équivalent, pour certaines âmes, à de saintes fiancailles!

When a cloud comes between two beings filled with affection for each other and whose lives are in absolute unison, that cloud, though it may disperse, leaves in those souls a trace of its passage. Either love gains a stronger life, as the earth after rain, or the shock still echoes like distant thunder through a cloudless sky. It is impossible to recover absolutely the former life; love will either increase or diminish.

L'amour est la poésie des sens.

Para los enamorados es un placer infinito encontrar en los accidentes de un paisaje, en la transparencia del aire y en los aromas de la tierra la poesía que anida en su alma. La naturaleza habla por ellos.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Ba?kalar?n?n mutlulu?u art?k mutlu olamayacak olanlar?n tesellisidir.

En esta amistad, ya vieja, uno de los dos amaba con idolatría, y era David. Por ello Lucien mandaba como mujer que se sabe amada. David obedecía de buen grado.

Some human beings obtain through love the power of transferring their self — their I — to the being of another; and when death takes that other, no life of their own is possible for them.

Existe esa clase de goces que solamente pueden saborearse entre dos, de poeta a poeta, de corazón a corazón.

Hay ciertas personas que no tienen ya el mismo valor una vez separadas de los rostros, de las cosas y de los lugares que les sirven de marco.

who had not felt his daughter's heart beat against his breast for ten years, "do you want me to die of joy?

When a Parisian drops into the country he is cut off from all his usual habits, and soon feels the dragging hours, no matter how attentive his friends may be to him. Therefore, because it is so impossible to prolong in a tete-a-tete conversations that are soon exhausted, the master and mistress of a country-house are apt to say, calmly, "You will be terribly bored here.

Ce qui rend les amitiés indissolubles et double leur charme, est un sentiment qui manque à l'amour, la certitude.

To be loved, dear, to be comprehended, is the greatest of all joys; I pray that you may taste it!

The elder boy's plain white collar, turned down over a closely fitting jacket, made a contrast with his brother's clothing, but the color and material were the same; the two brothers were otherwise dressed alike, and looked alike. No one could see them without feeling touched by the way in which Louis took care of Marie. There was an almost fatherly look in the older boy's eyes; and Marie, child though he was, seemed to be full of gratitude to Louis.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.