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Connecting with others25 quotes
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own. — Willa Cather · 1925Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1901The bonds between ourselves and another person exist only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying. — Marcel Proust · 1922Human contact seemed to her so frail a thing that the hope that two people might want each other in the same way, at the same time and with the possibility of doing something about it, seemed infinitely remote. — Margaret Drabble · 1969The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers... Of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few, the true friends, as Plato was to Aristotle at the very moment they were disagreeing about the nature of the good... They were absolutely one soul as they looked at the problem. This, according to Plato, is the only real friendship, the only real common good. It is here that the contact people so desperately seek is to be found. — Allan Bloom · 1987Oh, the comfort-the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person-having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. — Dinah Craik · 1859All 25 quotes →Friendship4 quotes
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: "Because it was he; because it was me." — Michel de Montaigne · 1580And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. — Stephen Chbosky · 1999They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920When I communicate my thought and my sentiments to a friend with whom I am in full sympathy, so that my feelings pass into him and I am conscious of what he feels, do I not live in his brain as well as in my own-most literally! — Charles Sanders Peirce · 1966Intimacy3 quotes
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own. — Willa Cather · 1925Another’s soul is a dark forest. — Ivan Turgenev · 1850No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still some things you can’t reveal. — Haruki Murakami · 2013Love3 quotes
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — Emily Bronte · 1847There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. — George Sand · 1862Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1929Personal chemistry3 quotes
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. — Jane Austen · 1811The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. — Carl Jung · 1933They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920Relationships3 quotes
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — Emily Bronte · 1847There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. — George Sand · 1862I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times. — Celine · 2004Limits of knowledge2 quotes
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own. — Willa Cather · 1925Another’s soul is a dark forest. — Ivan Turgenev · 1850Being in love1 quote
With thee conversing I forget all time. — John Milton · 1667Chemistry1 quote
You know that moment when you look into somebody's eyes and you can feel them staring into your soul and the whole world goes quiet just for a second? — Ryan Bingham · 2009Communication1 quote
When I communicate my thought and my sentiments to a friend with whom I am in full sympathy, so that my feelings pass into him and I am conscious of what he feels, do I not live in his brain as well as in my own-most literally! — Charles Sanders Peirce · 1966Community1 quote
The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers... Of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few, the true friends, as Plato was to Aristotle at the very moment they were disagreeing about the nature of the good... They were absolutely one soul as they looked at the problem. This, according to Plato, is the only real friendship, the only real common good. It is here that the contact people so desperately seek is to be found. — Allan Bloom · 1987Existential solitude1 quote
The bonds between ourselves and another person exist only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying. — Marcel Proust · 1922Feeling seen1 quote
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it. — Margaret Drabble · 1963Good conversation1 quote
With thee conversing I forget all time. — John Milton · 1667Happiness1 quote
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. — George Sand · 1862Home1 quote
And I look at you, and I...I'm home. — Dory · 2003Inscrutability1 quote
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own. — Willa Cather · 1925Isolation1 quote
The bonds between ourselves and another person exist only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying. — Marcel Proust · 1922Loneliness1 quote
If you think about it, your favorite memories, the most important moments in your life, were you alone?... Life's better with company. — Ryan Bingham · 2009Man as social animal1 quote
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. — Carl Jung · 1933Nature of love1 quote
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1929Seeking the truth1 quote
The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers... Of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few, the true friends, as Plato was to Aristotle at the very moment they were disagreeing about the nature of the good... They were absolutely one soul as they looked at the problem. This, according to Plato, is the only real friendship, the only real common good. It is here that the contact people so desperately seek is to be found. — Allan Bloom · 1987Soulmates1 quote
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — Emily Bronte · 1847The human condition1 quote
The bonds between ourselves and another person exist only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying. — Marcel Proust · 1922The soul1 quote
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — Emily Bronte · 1847Value of friendship1 quote
Oh, the comfort-the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person-having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. — Dinah Craik · 1859Vulnerability1 quote
No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still some things you can’t reveal. — Haruki Murakami · 2013