Scott Westerfeld Quotes

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

That's my message: I'm not alone, and neither is anyone else.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

We need to create areas to come together, where we can be there for each other.

I am no longer a shuddering speck of existence, alone in the darkness;--I belong to them and they to me; we all share the same fear and the same life...I could bury my face in them, in these voices, these words that have saved me and will stand by me.

You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone.

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

'96 is the year of love. We all need to pull together.

By being friends with all, we are not alone.

I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.

Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

I want everyone to know there is always someone there for you.

You need somebody just to say, 'Hey, I'm here for you. Do you need anything?' If you can get somebody like that, you can make it, no question about it. You can make it.

People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!'

I need to feel part of something.

My music is straightforward because I want to give people me and let them know they're not alone in going through the things that they go through.

Empathy has the power to bring together people who would otherwise never meet. It has the power to teach us and to reach us in moments of isolation when we think nobody understands.

Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island

I feel very inspired right now because I know there are a lot of people out there who are really scared but I feel this great sense of togetherness and people coming together and saying, "I got your back."

I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson