“That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
“Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.”
The Autumn Garden (1951)
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American dramatist and screenwriter 1905–1984Related quotes
“And it's amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make.”
Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books
Source: Benny and Babe
“Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.”
Carsten Jensen (1952) Danish author and political columnist
Source: We, the Drowned
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
In reference to the Alabama Council on Human Relations, an organization which was joined by King, whose church's meeting room was used to hold monthly meetings for the Montgomery chapter the council. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (1958)
1950s
Context: Although the Montgomery council never had a large membership, it played an important role. As the only truly interracial group in Montgomery, it served to keep the desperately needed channels of communication open between the races.
Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated. In providing an avenue of communication, the council was fulfilling a necessary condition for better race relations in the South.
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
Attributed to Kenneth Boulding in Hans Adriaansens (1980) Talcott Parsons and the Conceptual Dilemma. p. 10
1980s
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Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher
La guerre, c'est un massacre de gens qui ne se connaissent pas, au profit de gens qui se connaissent, mais ne se massacrent pas.
Bizarre, issues 24-31 (1962), p. 102
This apocryphal quote from Paul Valéry is never precisely sourced: neither on the internet nor in the works we have consulted. See: https://www.guichetdusavoir.org/question/voir/52650