Lena Dunham Quotes

Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their own stories within the songs and they can become our version of events.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

The irony is that the more specific you are in the portrayal of character, the more like other people you are. In the same way, the more you think about how alone you are in this life, you realise how much a brother and sister everyone else is.

There's a universal inside of me. So if I tell my story, you're going to see parts of your story in it. I don't know which parts, but we all overlap. We're all very much alike.

In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.

Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.

So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

I'm glad that the lyrics reach people and make them understand that we're all the same, really.

I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.

I like it that in many ways we are all the same.

I want people to see some of their own humanity no matter who they are.

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will go along with it.

If you actually get down to the nitty-gritty of the average Pakistani, the average Indian, the average whoever, what you really do know emotionally is that they're exactly the same.

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.

There are so many people in the world with so many different perspectives. But ultimately, at the heart of it, they're people.

I love relatable stories.

You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.