George Saunders Quotes

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under the microscope of your attention, opens up like a beautiful, strange flower and gives itself back to you in ways you could never imagine.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

If I see my fans crying, I just want to give them a hug... and tell them I love them.

And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

I think it's all about how much you love, understand and can relate to the material you are given.

There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But you give, you receive, you cherish, you are there. When you are really there, you know when you see the picture later what you are seeing.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do.

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.