Tennessee Williams Quotes

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?

My answer is: Recognize yourself in others

They see her differently now, as somebody. And isn't that what everyone wants? To be seen?

That's why I liked him, I think. Another guy pretending to be human, just like me.

If you're a person and care about other people - I don't think I have any sort of special understanding or anything, I think any feeling person would experience similar things if given the same opportunities to see the things I've been lucky enough to see and meet the people I've been lucky enough to meet.

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

You rehear your life by reading about what happens to other people.

I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.

The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured.

Visibility is a tricky thing; is someone visible when you can point her out in a crowd, or when you understand what her life feels like to her?

I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.

But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.

We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.

We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.

Sometimes, we only get to know someone as one aspect of who they are. Then you start peeling back the layers and understanding more and more about who they are - their vulnerabilities, their fears, their joys, all those other words that equal humanity.

I'm desperate to be in the same room as Katie Hopkins. There are a few things I'd like to say to her, really calmly. I'd just like to put forward a case for her to integrate the 'her' that she pretends to be on TV with the 'her' she is as a real person.

I wanted to get people to feel where I'm coming from and connect with people who are feeling the same way that I am.

I would like to be re-considered as a person.