#Shared Experience Quotes

“It is a tie between men to have read the same book.”

“There where the course is,Delight makes all of the one mind,The riders upon the galloping horses,The crowd that closes in behind.”

“There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.”

“You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.”

“We're all dreamers.”

“I want people to be more open and tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory that is the common denominator - for we all share in the human experience: pain, sadness, grief, lack of love, and then, with hope and help, step by step achievements.”

“And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.”

“Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.”

“Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.”

“What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come together as Baptists or Methodists. You don't catch hell 'cause you're a Baptist, and you don't catch hell 'cause you're a Methodist... You don't catch hell because you're a Democrat or a Republican. You don't catch hell because you're a Mason or an Elk. And you sure don't catch hell 'cause you're an American; 'cause if you was an American, you wouldn't catch no hell. You catch hell 'cause you're a Black man. You catch hell, all of us catch hell, for the same reason.”

“The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.”

“You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.”

“I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it.”

“The seeing have the world in common.”

“Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.”

“There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.”

“The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own”

“When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.”

“This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.”

“To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.”

“Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.”

“Friendship is born at that moment when a single particular person claims to a different: 'What! You far too? I assumed I was the only real one particular.”

“Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."”

“You Too? I thought I was the only one.”

“The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!”

“Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.”

“In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.”

“But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The seas, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death--these are things that unite us all. We resemble one another in what we see together, in what we suffer together. Dreams change from individual, but the reality of the world is common to us all. Striving towards realism is therefore legitimate, for it is basically related to the artistic adventure.”