Mark Haddon Quotes

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

Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

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'm human just like everyone.

At the end of the day, we are all humans.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

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

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

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

We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.

Everyone can relate to me no matter what race or who you are or how you feeling.

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.

There's so much more to people than their differences.

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

Basically, therefore, we should approach others openly, recognizing each person as another human being just like ourselves. There is not much difference between us all.

I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don't mean sentimentality, I don't mean mush. I mean that idea, that human beings are more alike than we are different. And that means that I can love you. I don't mean support you in bad things you do, that I can understand because you're a human being.

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.