Etgar Keret Quotes

Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.

The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

There's a love that I want to continue to offer people. And, I hope I can offer people that love through the art.

One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human.

Writing makes you more human.

What I'm looking for in people now is kindness.

Love people, not things; use things, not people.

The reason we like acting is connecting to other people.

I'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

Every now and then, I am reminded it's not always about politics. It's about people.