M. F. K. Fisher Quotes

If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's; if we feel, we would that another's nerves should vibrate to our own, that the beams of their eyes should kindle at once and mix and melt into our own, that lips of motionless ice should not reply to lips quivering and burning with the heart's best blood. This is Love.

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

I think laughter between people is a holy form of connection, of communion. It's the way you and I look at each other and without words, say, I get exactly what you're saying. And so, it's important to me.

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other.

How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?

Whether it's friendship or love. The essence of is two people trying to share something. When I think of how I met my best friends, it was always like love at first sight.

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

I know it is all right. I wish I could make you feel so, I wish I could describe my feelings.

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.

Love can be understood only 'from the inside,' as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

In the graver and more sentimental communication of man and man, the head still bears the superior sway; in the unreserved intimacies of man and woman, the heart is ever uppermost. Feeling is the main thing, and judgment passes for little.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

I think that sometimes we open our hearts a little more easily to animals than we do to each other.

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.