Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

It definitely seems like we are connecting with people, which is nice, because I've had a lot of music do the same for me. It's not like I don't I understand why we get the reactions we do.

I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.

It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.

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

We are all connected. The pain and suffering of others is yours also, on some level, whether you choose to pay attention or not. The reason we can't achieve total bliss is because you're not here solo.

If I love Etta James, it's not just the voice, and it's not just the song, but it's the energy that connects me to her, so if she is strong, I can be strong, too, and if she is sad, I know I am not alone, or if she is joyous, I can connect with that joy.

Any relationship, I'm talking about even with your kids, when you got something they can relate to - both of y'all - it helps.

The last page of [Lincoln in the Bardo] - without giving too much away - involves somebody entering somebody else. Not in a sexual way. But it says one of the simplest things you could ever say, which is that we must try and be inside each other. We must have some kind of feeling for each other and enter into each other's experience.

And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.

Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

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.

As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.

I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.