55 Quotes About Other-people

our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.

Other people are, as a rule, so immaterial to us that, when we have entrusted to any one of them the power to cause so much suffering or happiness to ourselves, that person seems at once to belong to a different universe,

What really defines us is 50% what is said about us when we are not in the room, and 50% by what we say about others who are not in the room.

Silaha kuu ya uchoyo ni kujitolea kwa ajili ya watu wengine. Ni upendo.

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

A man who asks for your time but doesn't value it, will one day ask for your money and won't return it.

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

How well do we actually know ourselves? Can we dare to say that we really know someone, like really, really know them?

But a man must live. Not for nothing do we invest so much of ourselves in other people's lives—or even in momentary pictures of people we do not know. It cuts both ways: the happy group inside the lighted window, the figure in long grass in the orchard seen from the train stay and support us in our dark hours. Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.