Quotes about Connection

is so painful in you, Celia, that you will look at human beings as if they were merely animals with a toilet, and never see the great soul in a man's face.

connected, I may say, with such activity of the affections as even the preoccupations of a work too special to be abdicated could not uninterruptedly dissimulate);

I suppose one reason why we are seldom able to comfort our neighbours with our words is that our goodwill gets adulterated, in spite of ourselves, before it can pass our lips. We can send black pudding and pettitoes without giving them a flavour of our own egoism; but language is a stream that is almost sure to smack of a mingled soil.

What do we live for, if not to make the world less difficult for each other?

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

have been little disposed to gather flowers that would wither in my hand, but now I shall pluck them with eagerness, to place them in your bosom.

The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one's own homestead.

how was a man to be explained unless you at least knew somebody who knew his father and mother?

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

No child was afraid of approaching Silas when Eppie was near him: there was no repulsion around him now, either for young or old; for the little child had come to link him once more with the whole world. There was love between him and the child that blent them into one, and there was love between the child and the world

Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.

I cannot bear to think that any one should die and leave no love behind