Eugene Ionesco Quotes

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will go along with it.

My efforts have been to not only put the Biblical incident in the original setting, but at the same time give the human touch which makes the whole world kin and which ever remains the same.

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.

I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same.

I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

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.

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.

People used to say I'm regional, but I'm not... We all have the same human condition.

That's the power of film. If it's good, it can somehow make you feel connected to even the farthest thing from your own experience.

One of the great values of the theater is a communal search for truth; I believe that sincerely.

TV can be a thread between all of us, and it can be a powerful tool to examine life and love and what we all have in common as humans.

Art is meant to bring people together. It's meant to raise consciousness.

I discover in my experiential space evidence for the wrongness of solipsism, and this evidence is called beauty.

Despair is despair, sorrow is sorrow, death is death. It's not about who is experiencing it; it's about building a bridge of empathy across these experiences.

The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it's something that theatre can do, but it's rare; it's very rare.

And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.

Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of other people have read those books before. And listened to those songs. I wonder how they feel tonight.

God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.

We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy.

We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and music seems to be the commons denomination that brings us all together. Music cuts through all boundaries and goes right to the soul.