Shane Koyczan Quotes

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

I'm trying to make connections. That's all we do as human beings on the planet, isn't it? We try to connect.

We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.

The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.

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

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.

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope.

This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.

The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person human. Without writing, we just wouldn't have that kind of access.

Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.

I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.

We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.

A documentary film is a great way of helping people understand because, somehow, when one is able to see the people involved, it lends a certain immediacy and understanding that is hard to get on the page.

At the end of the day, people don't always remember what it is you said to them, but they remember how you made them feel.

It's incredible to me that any two individual minds, trapped in their skulls and bodies and histories and unique experiences, are able to reach across the void between them and touch at all.