Don DeLillo Quotes

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below.

We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.

Family is just the people you care about. We can bond with people that we have nothing in common with, even if it's just for a moment.

I can share my experiences with people, and they identify with it and sing it back to me. That's the best feeling in the world.

Empathy has the power to bring together people who would otherwise never meet. It has the power to teach us and to reach us in moments of isolation when we think nobody understands.

I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate.

Friendship either finds or makes equals.

I understand everything,” he said. “You understand nothing, but it really doesn’t matter, since what you mean is, you’re glad to see me, just as I’m glad to see you because no more loneliness.” “That’s what I mean,” said Fezzik.

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else.

It almost makes the secrets more important, those few things you actually do choose to keep to yourself.

If you and I are friends, there is an expectancy that exists within our relationship. When we see each other or are apart, there is an expectancy of being together, of laughing and talking. The expectancy has no concrete definition; it is alive and dynamic and everything that emerges from our being together is a unique gift shared by no one else.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought."

However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

But how can one be warm alone?

Man is not meant to live alone.

The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.

Desperate, yet no longer alone after that day, because we'd found each other.

Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.