Quotes About Connection

I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

Rayner avait sans doute une dizaine d'années de plus que moi. Ce qui ne pose en soi aucun problème. J'entretiens des relations chaleureuses, sans bras cassés, avec quantité de personnes de cet âge.

His name was Rayner. First name unknown. By me, at any rate, and therefore, presumably, by you too.

She kissed me. She kissed me. What I mean is, I was standing there, lips puckered, brain puckered, and she just stepped up and threw her tongue into my mouth. For a moment, I thought maybe she'd tripped on a floorboard and stuck out her tongue as a reflex - but that didn't seem very likely somehow, and anyway, once she'd got her balance back, wouldn't she have put her tongue away again? No, she was definitely kissing me.

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

We are so easily baffled by appearances And do not realize that these stones are one with the stars.

There's no such thing as a boring subject, only a bored listener who hasn't bothered to search for the relevance of the message to them.

Wise Penelope! That's was Odysseus said to his wife when he got home. I don't think he ever told her he loved her. He probably knew the words would sound too small.

He sat down again. He wanted her body, even though there were plenty of other bodies he could have. Which meant, I suppose, that he wanted her body to want his. It would have been beneath his intellectual dignity to admit that he also wanted her soul to like his own soul.

I don't think he ever told her he loved her. He probably knew the words would sound too small.

I sometimes wonder if the "dead" are not more present, more comfort, more here than most of the living.

If I had Only ... Forgotten future greatness and looked at the green things and the buildings and reached out to those around me and smelled the air and ignored the forms and the self-styled obligations and heard the rain on the roof and put my arms around my wife ... and it's not too late

Do I avoid looking a stranger in the eyes because I don't want to make him uncomfortable, or do I turn my eyes so he can't look into me?

No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves

All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.

Don't strive for love, be it.

I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.

Hoerenpraat natuurlijk, maar toch lief.

women would be wonderful if we could fall into their arms instead of their hands.

Proprio perché non assomigli a nessuna avrei voluto incontrarti sempre... In qualsiasi posto...

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.

Everyone who made love the night before Was walking around with flashing red lights On top of their heads—a white-haired old gentleman, A red-faced schoolboy, a pregnant woman Who smiled at me from across the street And gave a little secret shrug, As if the flashing red light on her head Was a small price to pay for what she knew.