Quotes About Understanding

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

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.

I want you to know that you are not alone in your being alone.

Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease.

The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.

I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.

Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

So if you feel as if you feel too much, well then you are not alone. May these words find you like a friend.

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

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

Being alone and being lonely are two different things. (Yasu)

Connecting with others is rewarding; it makes us feel like we're not alone in the world.

Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.

Remember: You're not alone.

Good comedy helps people know they're not alone. Great comedy provides an answer.

Everybody's crazy in some way and everybody's weird, and that kind of makes us all the same in a lot of ways. We're not alone, we just think we are.

We write to know we are not alone

there is always something comforting about knowing that you are not alone. That other people feel the way you do. That you are a bit screwed up, but still normal.

As long as we have books, we are not alone.

Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient.