Quotes about share
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“I don't think I can do it alone," I said. I had a feeling thewasn't really meant to be cast alone: as if truth didn't mean anything without someone to share it with.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

Truth, Feeling, Thinking

“Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Imagination, Study

“We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

Night

“We are bound by the secrets we share.”

Zoë Heller (1965) British writer

Source: What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]

Secret

“He became my confidante, someone with whom I could share thoughts I could never voice… In exchange, he trusted me with his.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Love, Feeling, Sense, Universe

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”

Leo Tolstoy book A Confession

Source: A Confession

“There isso mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.”

Georgette Heyer book Venetia

Source: Venetia

Love

“Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.”

Sophie Kinsella book Can You Keep a Secret?

Source: Can You Keep a Secret?

Personality

“No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it.”

William L. Shirer book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Source: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

Error, Failure

“We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Smile

“Both looked back then on the wild revelry… and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Solitude

“If the Angels won, the entire Earth would be nothing but one giant Christmas frickin' morning, a choking wave of happiness and warmth and caring and sharing taking over everything.”

Jessica Bird book Covet

Source: Covet

Happiness, Angels, Christmas

“The love we'd shared always burned within me, no matter how often I told myself to move on, no matter how much the world did think I'd moved on.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

Love, World, Thinking

“There is nothing for her beyond those gates," Gavriel said. "Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it?”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Thinking

“That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”

Erich Fromm The Sane Society

Source: The Sane Society

People

“I don’t like to share my personal life… it wouldn’t be personal if I shared it.”

George Clooney (1961) American actor, filmmaker, and activist

Life, Personality, Powerful

“Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.”

Andrei Codrescu (1946) American writer

Source: New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City

Love, Nostalgia

“Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein

“A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover”

Clifton Fadiman (1904–1999) American editor

Lovers, Wine

“If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.”

Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928) Peruvian theologian

Source: A Theology of Liberation

Love, Life, Friendship

“We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland (2000)

Past

“I must have my share in the conversation…”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.”

Rudolfo Anaya book Bless Me, Ultima

Source: Bless Me, Ultima

Soul, Learning

“His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.”

Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) American author and journalist

Youth

“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. That the speaking profits me, beyond any other effect.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

essay "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action", in Sister Outsider

“If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Personality, Flying

“Only mundanes say they're sorry when what they mean is "I share your grief,"' Jace observed.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Note: 'family' does NOT only mean a biological unit composed of people who share genetic markers or legal bonds, headed by a heterosexual-mated pair. Family is much, much more than that.”

Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer

Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory

People, Family

“Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Peace, Communication, Heart

“All who joy would win
Must share it -- Happiness was born a twin.”

George Gordon Byron Don Juan

Source: Don Juan

Happiness, Joy, Happy

“Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.”

D.H. Lawrence book Sons and Lovers

Source: Sons and Lovers

Sleep, Perfection

“Do not fear so, here is one who would be a blade at your back. A shield across your breast. Here is kin, here is strength to lean upon, to share as you share in need.”

Andre Norton (1912–2005) American writer of science fiction and fantasy

Fear

“Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

Truth

“I don't share my body heat indiscriminately.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Devil in Winter

“You call that evening the odds? You demolished them."
Demolished. He liked that. "I left you one."
"I noticed."
"I promised to share," he told her. "Manners are very important in the Weird. Lying would be quite impolite.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Bayou Moon

Lying

“What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and share pleasure with.

-Jeremy Malory”

Johanna Lindsey (1952–2019) American writer

Source: A Loving Scoundrel

Pleasure, Feeling, Confidence

“One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Soul, Universe, Animals

“Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.”

Leon Uris book Trinity

Source: Trinity

Love, Joy

“There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.”

Theodore Sturgeon book E Pluribus Unicorn

Source: E Pluribus Unicorn

Soul, Loneliness

“Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

Source: The Odyssey

God, Pain, Way

“The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Feeling, Sense, Universe

“There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write you future.”

Brad Meltzer book The Book of Lies

Source: The Book of Lies

Love, Life, Past, Future

“They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Crimson Crown

History, Star, Kiss, Memory

“Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Feeling

“Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist

Love, Imagination, Learning

“I keep what's mine, and I do not share.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Seven Years to Sin

“All you who sleep tonight
Far from the ones you love,
No hand to left or right,
An emptiness above--

Know that you aren't alone.
The whole world shares your tears,
Some for two nights or one,
And some for all your years.”

Vikram Seth (1952) Indian writer

Love, World, Tear, Sleep

“What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.”

Dean Koontz book Forever Odd

Source: Forever Odd

Love, Marriage, Faith, Sense

“What is strength without a double share of wisdom?”

John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet

Wisdom

“I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.”

Anaïs Nin book House of Incest

Source: House of Incest

World, Understanding

“The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.”

Michael Pollan (1955) American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism

Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Family, Communication, Animals

“If I feel ragged, my prep team seems in worse condition, knocking back coffee and sharing brightly colored little pills. As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Color, Feeling, Coffee

“The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.”

Dan Brown book The Lost Symbol

Source: The Lost Symbol

“When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back”

Lee Benson American journalist

Color

“Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared,
and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.”

Aleksandar Hemon Nowhere Man

Source: Nowhere Man

Life, Memory

“Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.”

Jasper Fforde book The Well of Lost Plots

Source: The Well of Lost Plots

“And of course I'm a chauvinist, but it isn't my fault."
"It isn't?"
"No, Jack was born first and I share his genes. I can't help it if he infected me inside the womb."
Briony burst out laughing. "I should have known that would be your excuse.”

Christine Feehan book Conspiracy Game

Source: Conspiracy Game

Help

“Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning. Time can't be given. But it can be shared”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: The Gift

Tree, Time, Christmas

“Culture is shared meaning. Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.”

David Bohm (1917–1992) American theoretical physicist

Changing Consciousness (1991)
Context: Culture is shared meaning. Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. <!-- p. 185

“People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

People

“Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.”

Robertson Davies book The Rebel Angels

Source: The Rebel Angels

Silence

“there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Lovers

“Because a woman's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.”

J.M. Coetzee book Disgrace

Source: Disgrace

World, Beauty, Parting

“Share too much and someone can hurt you.”

Dorothy Koomson book My Best Friend's Girl

Source: My Best Friend's Girl

Hurt

“Without his mate to share his life, he was but a screen for events and circumstances to pass through. He was npt even empty, for he was no vessel to hold even the thinnest of air.
He lived, though was not truly alive”

Jessica Bird book Lover Revealed

Source: Lover Revealed

Life

“The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else.
But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.”

Charlaine Harris book Club Dead

Source: Club Dead

Life, Parting, Sad, Heartbreaking

“The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.”

Shan Sa book Empress

Source: Empress

World, Solitude

“Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

Source: The Christmas Sweater

People, Problem, Strong

“For both of us, it had simply been too enormous an experience. We shared it by. Does this make any sense?”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Sense

“I have it on good authority that Victor's going to have car trouble. Also that Robert really likes Cheerios, so if you want some, you're out of luck. He doesn't seem like the sharing type.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Cars

“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French. One of the things which Gertrude Butterwick had impressed on Monty Bodkin when he left for his holiday on the Riviera was that he must be sure to practise his French, and Gertrude’s word was law. So now, though he knew that it was going to make his nose tickle, he said:
‘Er, garçon.’
‘M’sieur?’
‘Er, garçon, esker-vous avez un spot de l’encre et une piece de papier—note papier, vous savez—et une envelope et une plume.’
The strain was too great. Monty relapsed into his native tongue.
‘I want to write a letter,’ he said. And having, like all lovers, rather a tendency to share his romance with the world, he would probably have added ‘to the sweetest girl on earth’, had not the waiter already bounded off like a retriever, to return a few moments later with the fixings.
‘V’la, sir! Zere you are, sir,’ said the waiter. He was engaged to a girl in Paris who had told him that when on the Riviera he must be sure to practise his English. ‘Eenk—pin—pipper—enveloppe—and a liddle bit of bloddin-pipper.’
‘Oh, merci,’ said Monty, well pleased at this efficiency. ‘Thanks. Right-ho.’
‘Right-ho, m’sieur,’ said the waiter.”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Luck of the Bodkins

Source: The Luck of the Bodkins (1935)

World, Law, Girl, Lovers

“That's another reason I keep putting marriage off. I know I want something like what you two share, and I'm not sure I've found it yet. I'm not sure I ever will. And with love like that… they say anything's possible, right?”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

Love, Marriage

“Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.”

Harold Bloom book How to Read and Why

Source: How to Read and Why

Nature, Learning, Reading

“Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

“Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.”

Don DeLillo book Cosmopolis

Source: Cosmopolis

“The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.”

David Foster Wallace book Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Source: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Pain, Personality

“It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty…”

Jon Krakauer book Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

Beauty, Intelligence, Learning

“… Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?”

Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer

Source: The Arkadians

People, Knowledge, Evil, Change

“I’d rather have my eyes gouged out. (Urian)
If I do that, can the Simi eat them? (Simi)
You have to share if you do! (Xirena)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Upon the Midnight Clear

“The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.”

Tom Stoppard book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman… as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing… [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.”

Vasily Grossman (1905–1964) Soviet writer and journalist who originally trained as an engineer

Source: Everything Flows

Happiness, Imagination, Forgetting

“I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Heart of the Matter

Life, Marriage, Happiness, Way

“Was this what it meant to love someone? That any burden was a burden shared, that they could give you comfort with a word or a touch?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Love

“Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Love, Women, Sleep

“Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944) American academic

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

World, Family

“It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.”

Carter G. Woodson book The Mis-Education of the Negro

Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro

Men, Fools

“Above all, he — and his goofball customers — believed that shared pain is lessened, and shared Joy increased.”

Spider Robinson (1948) Canadian author

The Callahan Chronicals (1996) [originally published as Callahan and Company (1988)] "Backword", p. xii
Context: In a culture where pessimism has metastasized like slow carcinoma, that crazy Irishman was backward enough to try to raise hopes, like hothouse flowers. In an era during which even judicious use of alcohol has been increasingly bad-rapped, the man who came to be known as The Mick of Time was backward enough to think that the world can look just that essential tad better when seen through a flask, brightly. (As long as you let someone else drive you home afterward.) Above all, he — and his goofball customers — believed that shared pain is lessened, and shared Joy increased.
Now he is gone. Gone back whence he came, and we are all the poorer for it. But I refuse to say that we will not see his like again. Or his love again.

Pain, Joy