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Quotes About Connection

I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.
~ Henry Scott Holland
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
~ George Eliot
If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
~ J. B. Priestley
Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
~ Ken Kesey
Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
~ Ivan Turgenev
ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee
~ John Donne
If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, then you know that I'm behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there
~ Terence McKenna
One dies only if he's not anymore in the hearts and minds of those who know him. - Monkey D. Luffy
~ Eiichir? Oda
To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.
~ Thomas Jane
Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.
~ Colleen Hoover, Slammed
Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.
~ Unknown
Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.
~ Rod McKuen
We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them.
~ Eleanor Farjeon
Not to have an audience is a kind of death.
~ Tillie Olsen
At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.
~ Robert Walser
The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it.
~ Frank O'Hara
I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.
~ Harold Pinter
Every civilian's death diminishes us, collectively.
~ David Petraeus
The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.
~ Georges Bataille
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
~ Jean Cocteau
I said, you're the beat of my heart, the breath in my body, the light in my soul.
~ Unknown
The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.
~ John Green