Ella Maillart Quotes

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.

Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. It's an obsession of mine: that different people in different places are thinking the same thing but for different reasons. I try to make films which connect people.

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.

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

My varied listening palette is all-inclusive of all walks of life. No one individual is exempt from the human experience, so it is that intangible that is a universal truth. In that regard, I've had success in encapsulating something cosmic.

The language can be different, but the emotional lives are the same no matter whether you're doing Shakespeare or Stoppard or something else... The emotional life is all the same.

We all wake up, and I'm sure at some point during the day we all have very similar thoughts regardless of our circumstances and where we are in the world.

The differences that separate human beings are nothing compared to the similarities that bond us together.

I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss and could teach no one anything except that I have lived with something in common among men.

You see my tears, in the rain underneath it all, we're just the same.

I think the father-son love story is a universal one which transcends color.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go.

My life is essentially not so unique. On some deeper levels we feel the same, we know the same things. Therefore if I show my life 365 days, moments from those days, it will reflect and it will have connection with lives of all of us.

Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.

Sports can bring people together in a way that politics cannot.

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.

Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.

In terms of helping people understand and know each other a little better, music is universal - universal and transporting.

Creative people have no barriers. Ultimately, it's connecting with human beings. There's just one planet. I don't see it as different countries.

If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can't.

The world is not such a large place, and we have more in common with one another than we might think.