Anna Letitia Barbauld Quotes

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

Be in community, go out to dinner together, do things together. We lose that, we lose a lot. It's important to come together.

If I love Etta James, it's not just the voice, and it's not just the song, but it's the energy that connects me to her, so if she is strong, I can be strong, too, and if she is sad, I know I am not alone, or if she is joyous, I can connect with that joy.

Giving people the opportunity to sit in a dark theater together and have emotions in public, whether they're laughing or crying - that's what makes me happy.

We love to work together. Especially when he stands behind me at the microphone and we hug.

Everyone (consciously or subconsciously) feels alone too - but no matter what, we're actually ALL together.

She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance.

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.

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

The last page of [Lincoln in the Bardo] - without giving too much away - involves somebody entering somebody else. Not in a sexual way. But it says one of the simplest things you could ever say, which is that we must try and be inside each other. We must have some kind of feeling for each other and enter into each other's experience.

The best is when we all go at once, like an army of interrelated popcorn zombies who laugh the same laughs and gasp the same gasps and aren’t so germ-phobic with each other that we won’t share a ginormous Coke with one straw. Family is useful like that.

As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.

That's what I'm hoping we can all do, is come together in a spirit of prayer.

We need to be together, and love each other.

Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.

When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.

Come let us be friends for once. Let us make life easy on us. Let us be loved ones and lovers. The earth shall be left to no one.

Once you are in communion with God, you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear other people in whom God has also found a dwelling place.

Happily, though we must each walk through life on our own, we don't have to do it alone.

People who truly understand God's purpose for their lives know that we are called to be intimately involved with one another.

I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be felt alone.