William Hurt Quotes

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 am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what unites me with everyone.

Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.

I'm no different than you.

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

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

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

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.

In this world, and all the things we have going on, we're all human beings.

I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.

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'm a normal person. I'm just like you and just like everyone else - I have feelings and thoughts.

Whatever the reason is, I am happiest when connecting with the human experience. It lets me know that I'm not alone in this world.

The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the landscape of being us.

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

‎When you meet anyone, treat the event as a holy encounter. It's through others that we either find or love our self. For you see, nothing is accomplished without others. When you eliminate the concept of separation from your thoughts and your behavior, you begin to feel your connection to everything and everyone.

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow felt - that is, they shared - all the pain and all the pleasure they caused one another.

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

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've learnt that the world over, everyone's essentially the same. We are all trying to have a nice time and get along with things.

I think we are all connected in this world.

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

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

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.