Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

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

Chris and I used to say, when he had his accident, 'Well, this is probably the worst thing that's ever happened to either one of us, but at least we had each other to go through it with.'

We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.

Carey's had though times as well, so between the two of us, it's perfect

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.

Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a bond stronger than sexual union can create, deeper than a shared fate can solidify, and even more intimate than the bonds of marriage or community. Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow, even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow. It is a unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love. Friendship makes all of life shine brightly.

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.

For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

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

Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.

There is an eternal humanity that crosses through all people, and it's more interesting often when it's about struggle - not people with champagne glasses.

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people.

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

Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.

People could empathize with other people who had gone through the same experience as they had.

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.