Close Quote by Katie Kitamura

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

— Carol Shields

More and more of us live segmented, compartmentalized lives. This isn't natural. For millions of years, our forebears knew everyone around them and everyone…

— Helen Fisher

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

— Robert M. Pirsig

No matter what you think or see, there's always something more to a person. Always something you don't know about them. Everyone has their…

— Anonymous

The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.

— Jennifer Lynch

We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.…

— Anonymous

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of…

— Sydney J. Harris

Who we are varies according to our awareness. When you are more aware, you are someone else than when you are less aware.

— Frederick Lenz

You can be close to the ones you barely know but have been through the same things you have. Those people can change your…

— Nichelle Williams

People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I think people will become more and more aware that we are all more than we seem.

— Shirley MacLaine

I'm so interested in the fact that we really don't know anybody. We think we know the people close to us, but we don't,…

— Elizabeth Strout