Connection Quotes

Rejection only made the attachment stronger. I realized that the impossibility of connection was a driving force behind his desire.

~ Deirdre Madden

People Bond when they are having fun

~ Itzik Amiel

Perhaps I couldn’t tickle the inside of his ear, but I could reach the mysterious curves of his mind.

~ Laura Whitcomb

The head of Goldwater's California operation what was so uncomfortable around people that he worked up a routine to deal with employees with whom he was forced to share an elevator: Taken your vacation yet? he would ask when they entered; answer took just long enough to deliver him to his fourth-floor office.

~ Rick Perlstein

Their musical ability and performance seems to derive from the past collective experience and presents itself in the individual unconscious today. Through it we tap into something eternal and it is apparent even in how they approach their playing. Perhaps we relate to it because, of any other instrument, the cello has a range that matches the human voice.

~ Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

I don't think you have ever really inhabited a city until you have walked down the street and seen every single person, no matter how unlikely or different from yourself, how disheveled or foreign, as a potential ally or recruit.

~ Barbara Ehrenreich

Night is the worst time. After the long regimentation of the day, the enforced silences, the men want to talk. At first it doesn’t matter what about: TV, movies, travel, jobs. I lie on my side on my mattress as the words pool around me, reciting to myself the botanical classifications for peach, cherry, apple. Magnoliophyta, Magnoliopsida, Rosales, Rosaceae… I smell the smell of other bodies: stale skin, flatulence, cologne. I long to open the windows and let the fresh air sweep the smells away, sweep the bodies away too. Gradually one man drops out of the conversation, then another. Soon there will be only two men left speaking. And these two—they are not the same two every night—will drop their voices, speak in an intimate murmur. Perhaps they are only gossiping about one of the monks. Perhaps they are complaining about the food. But no, there is a reticence that lets me know that they are trying, clumsily, to reach each other.

~ Pamela Erens

The feminine seeks connection through union, likewise the masculine seeks freedom through disengagement.

~ Nityananda Das

i wanted to be apart of the karma, that fed those whom have hurt me.. Than I realised, being apart of their karma is not a way to be free, so I let go with the belief;that, They chose the deed,& karma knows where their true intentions lead.

~ Nikki Rowe

There are strangers, people we don't know, who care about is.

~ A.m. Homes

We're on the same wavelength. We're connected that way, even if I'm away from her.

~ Haruki Murakami

Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being

~ Barbara L. Fredrickson

Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine.

~ Ernest Hemingway

no life of faith can be lived privately. There must be an overflow into the lives of others.

~ G.k. Chesterton

I just got my signals crossed. First thing, I have to untangle the connections. Otherwise, I come away empty-handed. Or with someone else's hands. Or even with a missing hand.

~ Haruki Murakami

In any case, the goal is the same: to connect.

~ Nicolas Billon

Whose idea was it that we should all get jobs, work faster, work better, race from place to place with our brains stewing on tweets, blogs, and sound bites, on must-see movies, must-do experiences, must-have gadgets, when in the end, all any of us will have is our simple beating heart, reaching up for the connection to whoever might be in the room or leaning into our mattress as we draw our last breath?

~ Dee Williams

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Before passing through the gates of a town I've never visited, I take a minute to salute its saints - the dead and the living, the known and the hidden. Never in my life have I arrived at a new place without getting the blessing of its saints first. It makes no difference to me whether that place belongs to Muslims, Christians, or Jews. I believe that the saints are beyond such trivial nominal distinctions. A saint belongs to all humanity.

~ Elif Shafak

In that instant of eye contact, in the mesmerizing depths of that sweet emotion, she felt bound to him in a way she’d never felt connected to another man. It was as if in that moment their hearts and minds, their very souls, were one.

~ Carla Cassidy

For love, as she knew it now, was something without shame and without reserve, the possession of two people who had no barrier between them, and no pride; whatever happened to him would happen to her too, all feeling, all movement, all sensation of body and of mind.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

I found you in the whispers of the shadow... luring me out into the light. Swallowed by the song and richness of the breath dancing in depth and perception wide. Heart within your eyes, soul in your word, I found home upon the essence of you.

~ Jennifer Hillman

He was lonely because he could imagine himself as anything but himself and as anywhere but where he was. His competitiveness and self-centeredness cut him off from any thought of shared life. He wanted to have more because he thought that having more would make him able to live more, and he was lonely because he never thought of the sources, the places, where he was going to get what he wanted to have, or of what his having it might cost others. It was loneliness that sometimes even he felt; you could see it. A self-praiser has got to accept a big loneliness in order to accept a little credit.

~ Wendell Berry

In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos. And the cumulative worldwide build-up of knowledge over time converts science into something only a little short of a trans-national, trans-generational meta-mind.

~ Carl Sagan

For a second, my hand touched yours, but that second is gone, and cannot be seen, heard or felt ever again. This second is gone, too, the moment in which I spoke by your side. It is dead. Let it die.

~ Claire North

In my eyes, BDSM is not a sexual experience, it's a spiritual connection.

~ Simon Shroud

Fully experiencing the connection that exists between us all is the secret to true contentment.

~ Simon Boylan

There was something about him that drove the shyness out of you, a kind of understanding that went deeper than words and set up an instantaneous closeness. It was odd; we couldn’t have been more different. Arthur Gordon

~ Arthur Gordon

Neither one of them could turn off their feelings, even with so much time and distance between them. The more they were apart, and the more they weren't allowed to be together, the more they loved each other.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I've never felt a connection like this with anyone else... I don't even know how to explain it. I feel like I already knew you before I met you, and the first time I saw you, the first time I talked to you, was incidental, because the connection was already there --.

~ M. Molly Backes

...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...

~ John Geddes

Spiritual counselling is helping people find the deep root of stillness in themselves, which is also a connection to everything else.

~ Jay Woodman

And I have to admit that there is something undeniably fulfilling about hunting with Rosie. Somehow, it makes me feel as if the long list of differences between us doesn't exist. We're dressed the same, we fight the same enemy, we win together ... It's as though for that moment I get to be her, the one who isn't covered in thick scars, and she gets to understand what it is to be me. It's different than hunting with Silas--he and I are partners, not part of the same heart.

~ Jackson Pearce

She was told it was magnetism that kept them engaged, and how do you separate magnets? You force them apart.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Benjamin and I sat in the middle of one of the large canoes with our grandmother in the stern, directing us past shoals and through rapids and into magnificent stretches of water. One day the clouds hung low and light rain freckled the slate-grey water that peeled across our bow. The pellets of rain were warm and Benjamin and I caught them on our tongues as our grandmother laughed behind us. Our canoes skimmed along and as I watched the shoreline it seemed the land itself was in motion. The rocks lay lodged like hymns in the breast of it, and the trees bent upward in praise like crooked fingers. It was glorious. Ben felt it too. He looked at me with tears in his eyes, and I held his look a long time, drinking in the face of my brother.

~ Richard Wagamese

We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.

~ Judith Viorst

Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.

~ Charles Sturt

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music.

~ Jonny Greenwood

We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.

~ Stephen Hawking