Pope Francis Quotes

A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing that your supposed solitude is at every point of its perimeter touching some other.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

No man is an island, especially not Jughead.

No man is an island; but some are peninsulas.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

Nobody exists in a vacuum.

Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

Nobody in the world is completely dependent on another person, but we are all interdependent.

You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.

We live in community, and we're created in community. We're created out of the unity of two people, and then we're made into a family. It's just inherent in who we are.

We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society

No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.

There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely.

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.