Quotes About Connection

Daß du mein Grab besuchst, ist nicht wichtig. Ich weiß, daß du an mich denkst – das ist wichtiger.

Do you know why I have so patiently translated Poe? Because he resembled me. The first time I opened one of his books, I saw with terror and rapture subjects dreamed by me and described by him, twenty years earlier. CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Es posible que nos separemos dentro de poco, que no volvamos a vernos en mucho tiempo. Pero si un día volvemos a reunimos, y recordamos esta noche y las horas que hemos pasado juntos, no habremos perdido "aquello" que nos ha unido. Estaremos más maduros frente a la vida, y podremos volver a unir los hilos que se han roto.

Only from within himself can a person know the depth of the world: in him lie the interconnections of the world.

To understand a man is really to be that man.

He crept up, and touched the face of the boy. "Didst thou dream that I should be faithless and forsake thee? I— a dog?" said that mute caress.

And of how he would hang the throat of Patrasche with a collar of gold, and place him on his right hand, and say to the people, "This was once my only friend

God speaks to those who take time to listen, and He listens to those who take time to pray.

A parasite cannot live alone

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. Victor Hugo

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. Anne Morrow Lindberg

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

There is a god within us, and we have intercourse with heaven. That spirit comes from abodes on high.

We two are to ourselves a crowd.

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

Before the scientific revolution, [man] did not feel himself isolated by his skin from the world outside to quite the same extent that we do. He was integrated, or mortised into it, each different part of him being united to a different part of it by some invisible thread. In his relation to his environment, the man of the middle ages was rather less like an island, rather more like an embryo.

Understanding what another human being says to us is always a matter of translation.

Cavalrymen and horses deserve each other.

You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

The silence isn't so bad, till I look at my hands and feel sad. Because the spaces between my fingers are right where yours fit perfectly.

Mind you, no one who lives in the real world spends the whole time going around saying, 'Oh yes,darling, I understand, let's talk about our "feelings", lah-dee-f**king-dah.' People who say they've never had a cross word are living on another f**king planet.

I didn't have a clue what love was about until I met Sharon.

Wow, dude, come in,' said Tommy [Lee], when I rang the door-bell. 'I can't believe it. Ozzy Osbourne's in my house.'

I've said to my kids, 'I don't want you to think I jumped away from you and clicked my heels and said bon voyage. It wasn't like that at all. It just about destroyed me.'