Quotes About Connection

Goodbye Kid. Hurry back. – Humphrey Bogart, last words to Lauren Bacall as she briefly left his bedside before his death.

And though he liked drawing trees he liked most of all to be with trees. He would climb them, lean against them, even talk to them. It saddened him to discover the not everyone shared his feelings towards them.

The spirit of man communes with Heaven the omnipotence of Heaven resides in man. Is the distance between Heaven and man very great

All my band members were old enough to be my dad. It was like this family vibe.

Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible.

Anybody who would like to have a long life and make his subsistence expanded, should pay visits to his own relatives.

If it is possible to be homesick for the world, even places one has never been and knows one will never see, this book is the child of such homesickness.

HB: So why does a person get involved with someone who's entirely wrong for him? NG: I think the answer, quite simply, is that you don't always get to decide to whom you give your heart.

Love isn't about having someone who's perfect. It's about having someone who's perfect for you.

Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.

Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her and she doesn't belong to you, but you're both part of each other; if she got up and left now and walked away and you never saw each other again for the rest of your lives, and you lived an ordinary waking life for another fifty years, even so on your deathbed you would still know she was part of you.

And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end.

With plenty of practice, we have learnt how to make a ritual of grief, even for those we have never met and know little about.

The density of being makes it promiscuous, always touching everything else, unconcerned with differentiation. Anything is thing enough to party.

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

In your emails, instead of just writing about your topics, tell a story that illustrates your points.

I understand how insubstantial this seems, how minor: man buys a coffee in French! But it was Gégé and Jean-Claude, and my own Walker, who reminded me how to do that simpest thing. They reminded me not to be ashamed. That is never a small accomplishment.

I sketched a picture of Jean-Claude in my notebook; he saw me, so I showed it to him. He erupted in pleasure. It seemed I'd found a way into his trust and his company—into his world. It was easier to do this with the residents than I had imagined. There were not rules, no prescribed routes: you went with what was available, with the most human thing you could catch on to.

With that in mind, I try to imagine the greatest gift I could've given my father. And as sleep descends on me, the answer seems strangely clear: my faith in his idols. That was what he wanted all along - to feel that we were united by something permanent, to know that as long as he and I believed in the same thing, we would never be apart.

Talking of his relationship with Jarrett, DeJohnette says, "I love him because, as a pianist and drummer myself, I can identify with him … the concept of what to ignore, what to leave in, what to leave out… we intuitively understand that … that's why when we play together… we never know what's going to happen, but we always get something happening that turns us on.

I looked across to his picture on the wall, the one that showed him with a pained look on this face, with a bleeding heart painted on his chest. I knew exactly how he felt.

People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.