Quotes About Connection

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight,the weight we carry is love.

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.

Love is a powerful force. It can heal wounds, bridge divides, and bring hope to the hopeless.

no matter what, when you leave your family tell them you love them. It doesn't matter if you had a disagreement, a fight, if you're still angry even after a good night's sleep. Tell them you love them and you'll work it out, no matter what, because tomorrow is never guaranteed.

Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.

When loved ones can't seem to reach you, they'll try until eventually they find a way. I find great solace in knowing that Dad was able to send energy to soothe me through others. We should all be grateful for those kinds of signs and messages; they're priceless.

I recently moved to Los Angeles and found out there's an entire city of people who never "fit in!" It's the "land of misfit toys." How great is that? So for those of you out there who are "unique," congratulations on recognizing it, and get comfortable with it, because it's a part of you and one day you'll stumble upon people who totally get you.

The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

Children are the proof we've been here . . . they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there's nothing else . . . Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there's any answer, it has to be them.

One of the best things about having children is that it enables you to have the same loving memories as another person - you can summon the same past. Two flashbacks but with a single image.

This larder of memories, of sex, of life, of family that we had built up, could always be called upon in the leaner times of our relationship... Everything we had built together over twenty years was there to be tapped into, summoned as evidence that we were made to last... I hadn't realized how much I counted on that trick working until the time came when it didn't.

Happiness isn't the easiest thing to find, but one place you're guaranteed to find it is in a friend's smile.

My spine shoots up straight like I'd been plugged into an eight-volt, and the mere sight of him literally causes my breath to leave my body.

I'm better at life with you in it.

being family doesn't mean that you don't hurt each other. It means that you might nick each other from time to time, but you love one another anyway.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. —Zelda Fitzgerald

fell in love with anyone who loved him back.

Finding that one person out there in the big wide world who you choose to be with...well, that's something else entirely. Love is scary and magical and bittersweet and special and hard and wonderful and the best thing that can ever happen to you in life.