Jonathan Maberry Quotes

Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island

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

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

We need to create areas to come together, where we can be there for each other.

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own isolation and find strength, and comfort, and warmth for and in each other. This is what human beings do. This is what we live for, the way horses live to run.

Hardship brings people closer together if you share it.

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

None knows the weight of another's burden.

At the end of the day, humans are social animals and we are at our best when we get to do things with others who appreciate and enjoy what we enjoy. It's what keeps us human.

I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that the sadness I feel is not just mine but ours.

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.

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

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.

Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene... For me, it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.

If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you're seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems.

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

In a place of pain, there is space for everyone.

It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.