Paul Auster Quotes

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

The whole world is a man's birthplace.

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

No one person is an island.

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.

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

Governments are different, and philosophies are different, but when it comes down to it, a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher. A butcher is a butcher is a butcher. We are people. And we are far more common than we ever imagine.

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!

I always like things that shrink the world for me, that make me feel a strange connection, not just to the person that I'm listening to but to the world.

I discover in my experiential space evidence for the wrongness of solipsism, and this evidence is called beauty.

We are united in that we are all human beings, and we are all together on this horrible, painful, joyous, exciting, and mysterious ride that is being alive.

Everyone (consciously or subconsciously) feels alone too - but no matter what, we're actually ALL together.

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.

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

In reality, on the grand scale, in my opinion... we are actually all responsible for each other.

The world only makes sense to me given my life and my background if, in fact, we're not just an assortment of tribes that can never understand each other, but that we're, rather, one common humanity that can meet and learn and love each other.

As we are - the world is.

The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.

We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet.

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

The most intimate motions within the depths of our souls are not completely our own. For they belong also to our friends, to humankind, to the universe, and the Ground of all being, the aim of our life.

Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.

No matter who you are, no matter what your culture is, it is absolutely possible to look out and extend yourself in such a way, that you can connect to other people and find that we are more alike than we are different.