“In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted; it was the same unmistakable ache and stab across the mind, the same sighs, the same pain, and above all the same reluctance and fear to approach.”

“All pain is the same.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“I am not a foreigner, because I haven’t been praying to return safely home. I haven’t wasted my time imagining my house, my desk, my side of the bed. I am not a foreigner, because we are all traveling, we are all full of the same questions, the same tiredness, the same fears, the same selfishness, and the same generosity. I am not a foreigner, because, when I asked, I received.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

“The book might be the same, but it is obvious that the minds and our understandings are not the same at all.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“I wished that love could be simple, that it was always given and returned in the same measure, equally and at the same time, that all the planets aligned in a perfect way to dispel all doubts, that it was easy to understand and never painful.”

Mary E. Pearson (1955) young-adult fiction writer

“Love is lord of all, and is in all the same.”

John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century

“Love is lord of all, and is in all the same.”
Amor omnibus idem.

Virgil Georgics

“All love stories are the same.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“The same Love works in all.”

John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic

“People with the same education as my own, speaking the same words that I do, loving the same books, the same music, the same paintings, are by no means immune from the danger of turning into monsters and doing things we would not have thought possible among the people of our own day, apart from a few pathological exceptions. If they are not immune, Why should I be so confident of my own immunity?”

Max Frisch (1911–1991) Swiss playwright and novelist