George Saunders Quotes

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.

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.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

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.

When you are in someone's home, in their bed, you see the world from their eyes. You understand 'the other' is not so other.

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

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

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

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There's not many people that I can't relate to and can't share experiences with.

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

Family is just the people you care about. We can bond with people that we have nothing in common with, even if it's just for a moment.

Twitter helped others to see me as a human being. And showed me their humanity, too.

I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate.

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.

‎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 want to stay in touch with what I have in common with my subjects, with the places where are equally implicated with whatever is wrong with the culture.

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

Anytime you share life stories with other people, you know, you are acknowledging their humanity and kind of accessing some things about yourself, and other people start to expect things about themselves. It's kind of like a fellowship.