Wislawa Szymborska Quotes

Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

I think one needs a companion at some point in life.

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

The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos-a cult of two with fallible gods.

I don't want to be alone my whole life. It is much more fun to share what you have than to have it to yourself. And it isn't like I don't have love in my life. I have a lot of friends who love me and who I love.

We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends.

How we need another soul to cling to.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

I don't know if you're married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you're both just in your own thing, but you're there together.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.

Life is not about making dough or how many movies you can make in a year. It's about finding someone that you can share things with.

When I'm single, I'm one guy, and when I'm in a relationship I'm totally another. They're both a good time.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

It just makes everything more pleasurable when you've got someone that emotionally is there to rely on.

If you're understood in maybe, I don't know, 60% of your soul by your partner, that's fantastic. Don't expect that it's going to be 100%. Of course you will be lonely.

In real life, if you really enjoy somebody's company, and you have a great time with them, and then you're supposed to - becoming two lovers who are having a great time in their own fictional world, I think it bleeds into reality and vice versa.

Our friendships are really the epicenter of our social world and emotional lives.