Alanis Morissette Quotes

It's terrifying. It's so scary, because you get used to being around the crew and being friendly with everyone and then suddenly, at a certain point, everything switches and you're the one standing behind the lights and nobody's going to help you. And that can be really difficult sometimes.

Every problem emerges from the false belief we are separate from one another, and every answer emerges from the realization we are not.

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.

We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

Often, marriage was solitude, with company.

If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?

Being cut off from the outside world is scary.

I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together through invisible but existing threads. A kind of literature which talks about a lively, ever-changing world of unity, of which we are a small, but not insignificant part.

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

The fear of separation is all that unites.

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

I know enough to know that no man is an island.

You see, there really is no separation between you and everyone else.

People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.

There’s a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it.

I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me