Edward Gorey Quotes

Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.

The dogs and I are a single thing, and thus we share our interests. With them, I'm bigger and better than I am without them, and vice versa.

Just as we rely on Israel as a continual source of inspiration and renewal, Israel relies on us.

We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

Richie and Eddie couldn't exist without each other. They're two halves of the same person.

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.

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.

I need them as much as they need me.

From the very dawn of time until now and well into the future... human-animal companionship is at the very core of our instincts not only for mutual survival, but mutually rewarding relationships.

Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and the last lesson.

Patch was in my life for a reason. I needed him. We were two halves of the same whole.

We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others’ activities. For this reason, it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.

Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?

Now and then it's clear to me, that need is love, and love is need.

I think on a day-to-day basis, what attracts us in coexisting with another living, evolving thing, is that you have a relationship that's different than with a piece of furniture. We experience the cycle of life through these other beings.

when I live in you, then together we can live through everything that happens to you.

Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.

We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from our idea of others and their good.

I'm here because the reason I get up each morning, needs me as much as I need her." -Jax Stone

Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you.

True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.

Your needs will be met once you can find a way of projecting energy and fulfilling someone else's need.

I am because other people are.

If you die, I'll die.' 'But is you live, I'll live.' - Bowman and Kestrel, Firesong