Dominic Monaghan Quotes

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 a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

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

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

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

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 a universal inside of me. So if I tell my story, you're going to see parts of your story in it. I don't know which parts, but we all overlap. We're all very much alike.

I like it that in many ways we are all the same.

I think people are universal.

I always concentrate on respecting human beings and their lives and the meaning within their lives, and I believe that is something people around the world can appreciate.

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.

There are so many people in the world with so many different perspectives. But ultimately, at the heart of it, they're people.

As human beings, we aren't as individual as we'd like to believe we are. And I think that's what makes acting possible. Despite the fact that I have not experienced something, I have it in my human capacity to imagine it and to put myself in someone else's shoes, and to take someone else's circumstances personally.

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

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.

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.

Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.

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

We have to know that the bad guys are not different from us in the world.

One of the things novels should do is shine a light on those parts of us that are common, the fibres that connect all of us. They should convey the sense that we're all connected, coming from the same tree, sharing common roots.