Other People Quotes

Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own

It's very hard to do when you put trust on others capability more than yours.

Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)

Remember that the lives of other people are not your business. They are their business. They are God's business because they all have God whether they use the word God or not. Even your own life is not your business. It also is God's business. Leave it to God.

There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.

Hide in the mirror. No one will look for you there.

I think this is one bad side of a mirror; it helps us to see the reflection of the effects of our own actions on ourselves. We smile and it smiles back to us, we frown and it frowns to us. How I wish it shows us the reflections of the effects of our actions on other people as well so that we will be conscious!

....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.

All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace.