The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
—Alfred Adler
People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
—Patti Smith
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
—Nicolas Chamfort
I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
—Vincent Van Gogh
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
—Philip Guedalla
Everybody has a home team: It's the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. It's the people who, near or far, know everything that's wrong with you and love you anyways. These are the ones who tell you their secrets, who get themselves a glass of water without asking when they're at your house. These are the people who cry when you cry. These are your people, your middle-of-the-night, no-matter-what people.
—Shauna Niequist in Bittersweet
In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.
—Gayle Forman in Where She Went
Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because their emotional thermostat is broken.
—Shannon L. Alder
Santa Claus has the right idea—visit people only once a year.
—Victor Borge
Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.
—Richard Yates in Revolutionary Road
This is an age of divorce. Things that belong together have been taken apart. And you can't put it all back together again. What you do is the only thing that you can do: you take two things that ought to be together and you put them back together. Two things, not all things! That's the way the work has to go. You make connections in your work… That's what we do, we people who make things. If it's a stool or a film or a poem or an essay or a novel or a musical composition, it's all about that. Finding how it fits together and fitting it together.
—Wendell Berry
Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people. Once you knew them you mostly forgot about it.
—Ann Brashares in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
—Patrick Ness in A Monster Calls
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
—Corita Kent
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.
—Bill Watterson