Lykke Li Quotes

I love animals, and I feel more of a connection to animals than people.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

You don't know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal.

Dogs are the only mammals that will actually stare and look into a human's eyes.

I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

With a creature, there's no voice, so the eyes become the voice. When you get eye-to-eye contact, a real connection, it's limitless - and incredibly thrilling.

There ain't a man livin' who hasn't talked to his dog.

When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are.

It's super dope when you connect with something personally.

I treat my cat like she's my therapist or something, because I talk to her all the time, and as she's gotten older, she talks back. It's pretty funny.

I love my fans to pieces. They're with me. They get it, you know? They get what I'm saying.

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.

They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech.

Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.

if we don't always understand animals, they always understand us.

I've got a lot of people that are really good at taming animals and working with animals; and they can't explain how they do. They just get a feeling from the animal.

The last page of [Lincoln in the Bardo] - without giving too much away - involves somebody entering somebody else. Not in a sexual way. But it says one of the simplest things you could ever say, which is that we must try and be inside each other. We must have some kind of feeling for each other and enter into each other's experience.

The more we are concerned for the well being of others, the closer we will feel to each other.

In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked.

The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.

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

But for now, I just sat there on the bed and listened to my song. The one that had been written for me by a man who knew me not at all, now sung by the one who knew me best.

I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.

Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.