Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

There is nothing in Indispensable that says, Alone.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

Life is a system of relations rather than a positive and independent existence; and he who would be happy himself and make others happy must carefully preserve these relations. He cannot stand apart in surly and haughty egoism; let him learn that he is as much dependent on others as others are on him.

I know enough to know that no man is an island.

There's no such thing as an independent person.

No one person is an island.

It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can't imagine a day without her!

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

Most people depend on a lot of other people.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

There is not a single one of us with a job that is not completely reliant in some way shape or form on others.

I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.

We have to move from our devotion to independence, through an understanding of interdependence

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

I need them as much as they need me.

We need others for our physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Without others we are nothing. Our sense that we are an island, an independent, self-sufficient individual, bears no relation to reality. It is closer to the truth to picture ourself as a cell in the vast body of life, distinct yet intimately bound up with all living beings. We cannot exist without others, and they in turn are affected by everything we do. The idea that it is possible to secure our own welfare while neglecting the welfare of others, or even at the expense of others, is completely unrealistic.

People exist for one another.

Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

Life is a big collaboration. And we can't navigate it alone.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

I am because other people are.

No man is an island unto himself.

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.