Connection Quotes

Once upon a time, in the not-so-distant past, very weird people were effectively isolated from all the other very weird people.But today, the internet makes it possible for very weird people from anywhere on the planet to get on the internet and talk to one another.

~ Caliban Darklock

Never forget that you live in an ecosystem designed to disrupt you and it will take you for a ride if you let it.

~ Michael Harris

I've been playing in the field of life on my own for a while now and it's fair to say I have gained myself along the way, I gotta admit though, after all this time I am damn well excited to fall insanely inLove with someone who knows how to take my breath away.

~ Nikki Rowe

Steve's throat swelled with tension as the intimacy of the moment became more tangible. He moved his eyes from the dark, reflective river, to the dark, reflective pupils in Diane's eyes. They seemed to quiver with tenderness - but then they would grow distant. He found himself continually surprised at the aliveness of the person standing just a foot away from him now. She wasn't inanimate: she would flinch if he pinched her, and answer if he asked her. And she was beautiful. -- From The Grand Unified Story -- a short story in Zack Love's Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

~ Zack Love

Nothing bonds two solitary individuals like a good shared drunk. This is a scientific fact. It’s important, even necessary for the long-term welfare of the planet to get good and shit-faced with your neighbor every now and then.

~ Sol Luckman

Anyway, I think Florence and I noticed each other before the local train screeched to a halt at the 110th Street station, because as I boarded it felt as though we were supposed to step into the same car, and hold onto the same moist metal bar. My wishful hunch now seems confirmed by the way she's reading her Time magazine article next to me.

~ Zack Love

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Only connect!

~ E.m. Forster

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

~ Barbara De Angelis

It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

People can't be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they'll find themselves bound hand and foot.

~ Ai Yazawa

There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know.

~ Carson Mccullers

I don't mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart; the same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn't a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they're not in the sky

~ Adam Rapp

Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

Disorder created connections──that is, resonance.

~ Eric Abrahamson

A single radio post still heard him. The only link between him and the world was a wave of music, a minor modulation. Not a lament, no cry, yet purest of sounds that ever spoke despair.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

There is a deep interconnectedness of all life on earth, from the tiniest organisms, to the largest ecosystems, and absolutely between each person.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Weary looked at him and shook his head and put the tailgate up and drove down the gravel towards the bivouac, carrying two drunks, who both fatuously imagined, that once in a dream somewhere, sometime, someplace, they had managed for a moment to touch another human soul and understand it.

~ James Jones

Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Many network theorists note that human beings differ dramatically from the rational profit maximizer of social science theory. Neuroscientists exploring different regions if the brain, sociologists mapping an increasingly networked society, and entrepreneurial enthusiasts of the sharing economy challenge the highly individualist conception of the individual that many economists embrace. Instead of homo economicus, let s consider homo sociologicus, a person driven as much by the desire to belong and connect as by her individual goals.

~ Anne-Marie Slaughter

Yoga is establishing an harmonious connection to your inner world with outer world.

~ Amit Ray

The glow of the steetlamps sat heavy and thick above me. As I walked aimlessly, in the direction of downtown, I returned to my theories. That Mizuko and I shared the pictorial equivalent of DNA. That a sympathetic magic existed between us, no matter how far apart we were pulled. That we defied physical laws of time and space, waves, gravity, the rules laid down by physicists which governed our physical universe (earthquakes, tsunamis) and physical bodies. And yet somehow our connection had led to the opposite of intimacy. My search had led to its opposite. I had never felt so isolated and disconnected, even from myself.

~ Olivia Sudjic

Did you feel that?' I asked him.He smiled sadly. 'Fitz, I have never needed to touch you to feel that. It was always there. No limits.

~ Robin Hobb

I wish they would all go away.Except the Fool. I wished he would join me. Somehow, I had always thought he would join me. Now, I could not recall why. Perhaps I had buried that in the stone.

~ Robin Hobb

He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!

~ Robin Hobb

Knitting has a profound connective power. The culture and people and rituals around it, the values, they all contribute to an immediate and profound trust in one another. It's home. You belong and are accepted, which rings true no matter where you are.

~ Clara Parkes

Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by one fixed star, and our drift represents merely a slight change of angle to it: we may seize the moment, toss it around while the moments pass, a short dash here, an exploration there, but we are brought round full circle to face again the single immutable fact --

~ Tom Stoppard

Connectedness. One thing leads to another. Often in unexpected ways.

~ Holly Goldberg Sloan

The only thing that had saved her then was knitting. In prison she had become a compulsive knitter. Knitting allowed her to unite, to connect, to integrate. With every stitch she held on to dear life. Threads hold us together.

~ Laura Esquivel

Why was it, do you think, I was able to recognise you and understand you?Why, Hermine? Tell me!Because it's the same for me as you because I am alone exactly as you are, because I'm as little fond of life and people and myself as you are and can put up with them as little. There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

~ Hermann Hesse

Remember: Oppression thrives off isolation. Connection is the only thing that can save us.

~ Yolo Akili

Putting words onto paper—when it is done as an honest act of search or connection, rather than as an act of manipulation, performance, self-aggrandizement or self-protection—is a holy act.

~ Pat Schneider

It is possible to adore those newly come into your world, to envision, no matter how late in the day, a happily entwined future with those who have not been part of your past.

~ Mohsin Hamid

For those we are born to speak to we need prepare nothing, the lines are ready, everything is there.

~ James Salter

So close that your hand upon my chest is mine,so close that your eyes close with my sleep.

~ Pablo Neruda

Time, let me vanish. Then what we separate by our very presence can come together.

~ Audrey Niffenegger

Laughing is so therapeutic but what is even more therapeutic is having someone laugh out loud with you.

~ Karen A. Baquiran

You don’t belong only to yourself, you know. I doubt there is a single person in this world that belongs only to himself. When someone makes a connection...there is always something shared. And so people will never be completely free. It’s that which brings out the fun...and sadness...and love.

~ Clamp

You don’t love a girl because of beauty.You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.

~ L.j. Smith

Bring out others’ better side and they are more likely to see and support yours.

~ Kare Anderson