Jonathan Swift Quotes

It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant.

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

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

A lot of people can relate to me.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

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.

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

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

When he is pierced, I bleed.

It's nice to feel like you have more in common with people rather than more differences.

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.

People can transcend and overcome their differences and be very easily bonded.

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

Love is a universal thing that everyone understands. Love, like death, is the only thing that binds humanity.

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.

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

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

I'm no different than you.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

I guess initially I was amazed that somebody would see something within my work that they could really relate to, but the more it's happened, the more people have come forward, I've really realized that we're all kind of going through the same thing at the same time.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.