Universal Experience Quotes

I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.

The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It was God who first set the stars in space; He is their Maker and Master . . . such are His power and His majesty.

Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.

Americans easily forget that the air they breathe is the same as those in Europe or Africa or Asia; it's the same air as Jesus breathed. I would like them to remember that connection.

I guess there's a song for absolutely everything that could possibly happen to a person.

Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that's the only thing in common throughout the world.

If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

Everyone gets sick, and everyone has to go.

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.

There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage.

Dying can't be all that difficult-up to now everyone has managed to do it.

Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the only thing we've really got, and I don't mean to sound bleak about this, but it's a unifying factor amongst us all.

Pain is pain. It needs no description.

You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.

We all have fears! Don't lie! We all have fears.

Think of your pain like a bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

Sex is the great equalizer.

I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

I really want queer kids to know that our experience is universal.