Hill Harper Quotes

There's no way to know exactly what someone's dealing with, no matter how open you are. You're just never going to know everything.

You never know what a person is going through, regardless of how much money they make or however great a life you think they're living.

Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies as well as joys. And that's what great drama, whether it's the movies or the theater, that's what it shows.

You never know what goes on behind closed doors.

If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

You don't know me, dude," he says, not smiling this time. Gonzo examines his cards, prepping for his next move. "People always think that they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel ****ed up for no reason at all.

Everyone says "I wish I was in your shoes...", the hundreds of people that wish they were in my shoes don't know the tenth of it. If they were in my shoes they would cry like a baby.

I've had my ups and downs in my private life.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Just because you don't know if other people are experiencing the same thing as you are, it doesn't mean that it's not happening. Everybody doesn't necessarily share everything. Just know that what you're going through, other people are going through it, too.

I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

People see me laughing and telling jokes, but they had no idea after the show was over, I had no joy in my life, in my heart.

You should never look at somebody and say, 'I wish I had their life,' because you never really know what struggles they're going through.

I think no matter how successful our lives may seem to the outside world, we all have our personal struggles.

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.

A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.

Anybody's life is probably a mess of secrets and lies when you boil it right down.

At the end of the day, we're all human beings, and people have their struggles and inner demons.

No one realizes how much pain is hidden behind my smile.

Most people don't realise there's certain things that players go through off the field. Most times, guys are good at hiding things.

Everyone is battling something emotional behind closed doors - that's life.

These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.

It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of light imperceptible to the human eye. It is a feat of the mind to guess another's heart.