Quotes About Connection

Every night when I turn the lights out in my sixteenth-floor living room before I go to bed, I experience a shock of pleasure as I see the banks of lighted windows rising to the sky, crowding round me, and feel myself embraced by the anonymous in gathering of city dwellers. This swarm of human hives, also hanging anchored in space, is the New York design offering generic connection. The pleasure it gives soothes beyond all explanation.

Come quasi tutti i lettori, a volte ho la sensazione di essere nata leggendo".

Letter writing is not the noble enterprise. Remaining fully expressive is the noble enterprise.

Still," I said, "I am sorry. But I was desperate to rescue my sister." "I understand," the sagging dragon assured me. He explained, "I, too, had a sister, once." The past tense didn't escape me. "What happened to her?" I asked, feeling we were connected, two of a kind after all, sharing similar personal tragedies. "I had to eat her," the dragon said, "to keep her from stealing my gold.

Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment.

In a way, a man's life depended on the china horse. Or at least on the breaking of the china horse.

Dersú –le dije–, te echaba de menos. En cuanto no estás, siento que falta algo.

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes

All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so.

Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.

A man's experienced palm makes any lady calm.

The nasty weatherpulls people together.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

As to the essence of Commerce and Manufacture, it is this: to establish bonds between every corner of the earth's surface and every other corner, to multiply the needs of mankind, and the desire for material possession and enjoyment.

It happens in an instant, when life becomes startlingly new and frightening and profound, and you turn to the person next to you and see that they feel it too.

Language is the measure of our lives, and what it means to be human.

I wish for you constantly for I want to talk about everybody and everything. I can't go up to a stranger & say 'your manners &looks have stirred me to this profound meditation'-

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or three or more persons who come together life after life until all passionate relations are exhausted, the child of one life the husband, wife, brother, sister of the next. Sometimes, however, a single relationship will repeat itself, turning its revolving wheel again and again.