Franz Wright Quotes

The irony is that the more specific you are in the portrayal of character, the more like other people you are. In the same way, the more you think about how alone you are in this life, you realise how much a brother and sister everyone else is.

I'm no different than you.

I think people are universal.

I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.

I want the fans to know that just because we have a microphone; we're no different from you.

I'm human just like everyone.

We're like everybody else. We hurt like everybody.

I'm human, just like anybody else.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

Underneath all the skin, we're all the same.

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.

In this world, and all the things we have going on, we're all human beings.

I think we're all more alike than we want to believe sometimes.

We are all human beings. We all have the same blood in our veins.

I'm a human being just like everybody else.

I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.

Sometimes we focus too much on our differences, but when we all look up into space, we see the same stars and we see the same sun. It really can be unifying.

There's a universal inside of me. So if I tell my story, you're going to see parts of your story in it. I don't know which parts, but we all overlap. We're all very much alike.

I like it that in many ways we are all the same.