Fay Weldon Quotes

We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.

The heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There is instant communication.

Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.

All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

I think that our view of love and family informs our work, the way we empathize with people.

I think that the most important thing we have is our ability communicate and love other humans.

There's something really comforting when you can truly connect with someone and be understood. Isn't that what we all want?

The more time you spend with somebody, the more your relationship grows.

...he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke-the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.

And without understanding, could each properly love the other?

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

We long to find someone who has been where we've been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences.

And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.

When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers.

He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.