Other People Quotes

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
― Confucius

“What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“It always helps to think about other people instead of ourselves.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

“I drop kindness pebbles in still water everyday, and I watch the effect they have on other people’s lives.

My favorite kindness pebbles are compliments.

Drop a compliment and watch the ripple affect that it has in your life.”
― JohnA Passaro, Again

“Memories are immortal. They're deathless and precise. They have the power of giving you joy and perspective in hard times. Or, they can strangle you. Define you in a way that's based more in other people's tucked-up perceptions than truth.”
― Viola Davis, Finding Me

“Когда я был моложе, я получал то, что мне было положено. Казалось, в этом и состоит жизнь. И где-то подсознательно я считал, что существует некая
система высшей справедливости. Но ее нет. Или если и есть, то не для таких, как я. И возможно не для таких, как вы. Если мы получаем лишь то, что нам причитается, то мы получаем немного, ведь так?
И все дело в том, чего ты хочешь, разве нет? Когда я был моложе, я притворялся, что хочу, или действительно думал, что хочу, множество вещей, просто потому, что этого же хотели другие. Я не утверждаю, что стал старше и мудрее - ну хорошо, лишь чуть-чуть, - но сейчас я знаю, чего хочу и не теряю времени на то, чего я не хочу.
И если вы отвечаете за себя, то не стоит переживать по поводу того, что кто-то еще чего-то хочет. Потому что это тоже отнимает много времени.”
― Julian Barnes, Love, etc.

“Sometimes even if you meet people where they are they will still reject you and that's okay. It takes more time for healing and self-discovery for some than it does for others. ”
― Germany Kent

“No one really cares about other people when you get down to it—their own struggles are too close up.”
― Colson Whitehead

“Criticism is a misconception.
We must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.”
― Emil Cioran

“Qu'est-ce-que faire l'amour ? c'est languir après le tout proche, comme si une fois levés tout les obstacles, , dans le contact des peaux, et l'entralacement des epidermes, l'Autre refusait encore de se laisser prendre.”
― Alain Finkielkraut, La Sagesse de l'amour

“People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen

“Isolation has carved me in its image and likeness. The presence of another person – of any person whatsoever – instantly slows down my thinking, and while for a normal man contact with others is a stimulus to spoken expression and wit, for me it is a counterstimulus, if this compound word be linguistically permissible. When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Yes, talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial, and in them intelligence gleams like an image in a mirror.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“If you can't swallow your pride to recognize the importance of other people, you are boned.”
― Sam Hyde

“Other people are, as a rule, so immaterial to us that, when we have entrusted to any one of them the power to cause so much suffering or happiness to ourselves, that person seems at once to belong to a different universe,”
― Marcel Proust

“Other people aren't like me in the slightest, I find. I admit though I prefer to know they are happy, just to be on the safe side. If not, they can be dangerous. I don't like seeing their blood, not at all, nor their guts, all that disgusts me. And if anyone deserves pity, it's me. The others will have to manage by themselves. They weren't any worse off before I was born, and they won't be any better off after I'm dead.”
― Roland Topor, Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne

“Happiness, joy and personal fulfillment are blessings acquired from within. You will not find it in other people and things.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Other people's lives were no less impossible to understand than my own.”
― Laura van den Berg, The Isle of Youth: Stories

“Seek not only to be known and respected by many, but to have people value your integrity as well as be empowered and inspired by the kindness you extend to others.”
― Germany Kent

“He rolled his window back up and turned off the radio, thinking about all the other possible lives that he would never be challenged to live.”
― Ani Baker, Handsome Vanilla

“A currently popular misinterpretation of metaphysical wisdom is the notion that we cause - and are responsible for - the behavior of everyone around us at all times. The truth is, we are responsible only for ourselves. We can control only our response to and interpretation of events. [...]

Not everything in your life happens TO you - or even AT you. [...] For example, if you are around a chronically angry person, you will be "angered upon". Nothing personal!”
― Sonia Choquette, The Psychic Pathway: A Workbook for Reawakening the Voice of Your Soul

“I liked the feeling of spying into the lives of others while they remained ignorant of my presence. I liked to hear, muffled yet nonetheless partially distinct through the door, the things they said when they thought that no-one other than their companion could hear.”
― Yasmine Millett, The Erotic Notebooks

“Whatever a police officer has done to you, it is likely they have done far worse to other people.”
― Steven Magee

“We all have our vanity, and that vanity is our way of forgetting that there are other people with a soul like our own.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“With each passing day the presence of others--which my soul always receives like a rude surprise--becomes more painful and distressing. To talk with people makes my skin crawl. If they show an interest in me, I run. If they look at me, I shudder. If.....”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“A person who does not feel good or happy, cannot feel good or happy about you. Do not base your self-image on people who do not feel good or happy.”
― Pamela Storch

“Your life is too important to waste on other people's wants”
― Jerri Chisholm, Escaping Eleven

“I had learned much about Marilyn and I guess she about me, but other people's information always seems more important or interesting or simply more like information.”
― Percival Everett, Erasure

“The person sitting across from you on the bus is the hero of their own story. The cashier at the grocery store has hopes and heartaches you will never know. ... We often treat others as background characters in our personal narrative, forgetting that we are background characters in theirs. When we recognise that everyone carries invisible burdens and joys, we become softer in our judgments and more generous in our assumptions”
― Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World"

“Each of us is the main character of our story, but we are also minor characters in countless other narratives. ... Right now, as you read this sentence, someone is watching a sunset on the other side of the world, someone is grieving their first heartbreak... Our joys and sorrows are part of a collective thread of life. Recognising the life beyond ours can bring humility”
― Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World"