“Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.”

“When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.”

Carol Ann Duffy (1955) British writer and professor of contemporary poetry

“When a person you love dies, it doesn’t feel real. It’s like it’s happening to someone else. It’s someone else’s life. I’ve never been good with the abstract. What does it mean when someone is really truly gone?”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

“I miss her. I don't know how to live without her. There is a hole inside me that nothing fills.
If you don't find something to fill that hole, someone else will. And if someone else fills it, they own you. Forever. You'll never get yourself back.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

“If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

“When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire. ”

Whoopi Goldberg (1955) American actress

“Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.”

Viola Davis (1965) American actress

“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet