Henry Reed Quotes

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?

I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together through invisible but existing threads. A kind of literature which talks about a lively, ever-changing world of unity, of which we are a small, but not insignificant part.

Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

I think we are all connected in this world.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race? I mean how many years does it take people to see that? We're all in this rat race together!

There’s a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it.

We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think.

We are all members of a single humanity, inside our hearts we all speak the same language, we all love our children and our parents, we all live in the same world.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.

I am a part of all that I have met.

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

My space expedition has changed my perspective towards people. Looking down at the Earth, we could not see borders or people with different nationalities. It was then that realisation dawned on us that all of us are a group of human beings and citizens of the universe.

The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how isolated you may sometimes feel, no matter how lonely, you are never really cut off from the whole.

We are all one - and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way.

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.