Louis MacNeice Quotes

Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance.

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

You ever feel like you know someone so much that they can breathe for you? Like when their chest and your chest rise and fall, they do it together because they have to? That's how it felt. That's how it always felt.

Holding you, I held everything.

Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

All who love are conspirators.

I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.

It sounds corny to say, but we're like a family. That experience for all of us really created a bond... The 'West Side Story' experience, it really is a family. There's a closeness that has continued.

We love to work together. Especially when he stands behind me at the microphone and we hug.

I've always wanted to be part of a family.

Love is closeness.

To love is to approach each other center to center.

He was my cream, and I was his coffee - And when you poured us together, it was something.

Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall

Love is to be two and at the same time one.

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?