Apr
28
2004

quote of the day: connection

“Where it gets really interesting, I think, is when we use [a] system of symbols to communicate all the abstract and intangible things that we’re experiencing. What is frustration? Or what is anger? Or love? …

“How do I know [that when I talk about these things, the people I speak to] understand? Because words are inert. They’re just symbols. They’re dead, you know? And so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed. It’s unspeakable.

“And yet, you know, when we communicate with one another, and we feel that we have connected and we think that we’re understood, I think we have a feeling of almost ‘spiritual communion.’ And that feeling might be transient, but I think it’s what we live for.”

- A character in the film Waking Life, written and directed by Richard Linklater

Posted at 1:51 AM in quotable

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