Quotes About Connection

As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn't matter how, I'll be all right. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won't mind it too much I remain outside their lives.

If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.

I want to love everyone', I thought, almost tearfully. If you stare at the sky, it changes little by little. Gradually it turns bluish. [..] I had never seen anything as beautiful as the translucent leaves and grass. Gently, I reached out to the touch of the grass.

When I lay next to her my body was enveloped in her current, which mingled with my own harsher current of gloom like a " withered leaf settling to rest on the stones at the bottom of a pool." I had freed myself from fear and uneasiness.

You've treated me nicely, yes, but only because you find me curious and amusing. It's made me feel so lonely, somehow.

My unhappiness was the happiness of a person who could not say no. I had been intimidated by the fear that if I declined something offered me, a yawning crevice would open between the other person's heart and myself which could never be mended through all eternity.

Every family," he jested, "has a fool—just to keep it in touch with reality.

They called me by my first name and bought me drinks.

Bu, benim insanlarda son sevgi aray???md?. Bir yandan insanlardan son derece korkarken, bir yandan da insanlar? bir türlü akl?mdan ç?karamad?m. Öylece, ?aklabanl?k sayesinde ince bir çizgiyle insanlarla olan ba??m? koruyabildim. D??ar?ya kar??, durmaks?z?n gülümseyen yüzümü gösterirken, iç dünyam ölüydü.

I had the feeling that were Mother to die, my own flesh would melt away with her.

Without mutual respect, there can be no true nuptial bond.

I have not the remotest clue what the nature or extent of my neighbor's woes can be.

It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it?—I don't know.

Así es cómo se me ocurrieron las bufonadas. Era mi última posibilidad de ganarme el afecto de las personas.

Yes, I know…I am always your friend.

Nos relacionábamos despreciándonos mutuamente y volviéndonos cada vez más triviales; si esto es lo que el mundo llama «amistad», entonces no hay duda de que eramos amigos.

I felt, rather, as if being next to her in itself made it unnecessary to worry.

My unhappiness was the unhappiness of a person who could not say no. I had been intimidated by the fear that if I declined something offered me, a yawning crevice would open between the other person's heart and myself which could never be mended through all eternity.

You see, Take-san loves you, Skylark. That's why she cried," she said and squeezed even harder.

Mon regard croisa celui de Tsune-ko et nous échangeâmes un petit sourire triste.

Horiki mostraba hacia los objetos de su casa una posesividad que alcanzaba hasta los cordones del cojín. Pensándolo después, a Horiki no le había costado ni un céntimo el divertirse conmigo.

Young men, if ever the one you love bursts out laughing the moment she sees you, you are to be congratulated.

There is no disputing the accurate, scientific fact that millions of germs are floating, swimming, wriggling everywhere. At the same time, however, if you ignore them completely they lose all possible connection with yourself, and at once become nothing more than vanishing "ghosts of science".

Pese a que temía tanto a la gente, al parecer era incapaz de renunciar a ella. Y esas bufonadas fueron la única línea que me unía a los demás. Mientras que en la superficie mostraba siempre un rostro sonriente, por dentro mantenía una lucha desesperada (...)