Claudia Rankine Quotes

Everything happens through relationships.

No one person is an island.

You do need people. You can't live without them. We're all interconnected in some way.

On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room.

When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.

We're now married to the world. But we keep acting like we're on a big date.

There's the bond of a connection and the bond of bondage... When you are connected to somebody, everything each one does affects the other, and it's a kind of bondage. You're not as free as you would be if that person wasn't in your life.

We might depend on each other a bit too much and use that as a crutch, but it's not entirely a bad thing.

I never want to feel too far away from people. I think that's when you get in trouble.

Everybody's somebody's everything

Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.

You fixed yourself. You didn’t need me.” “No, Sydney.” My voice was ragged. “I do need you. You have no idea how much I need you.

But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.

It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.

Some women and men seem to need each other.

No, no I'm not, no, but I just think... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Being married, I would say most relationships are pretty codependent in some ways.

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.

You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

How we need another soul to cling to.

I don't think that we really know our animals. We think we do because we're humans, and we think we can control things like that. We don't know anybody that we love. It could be a girlfriend or a cat. I think we just have to be at peace with that.

If you get married, you become vulnerable.