bell hooks — Quote from All About Love

“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.”

All About Love (2000)

Concepts: loneliness, love, solidarity

Resonant Quotes

“The deepest need of man is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave th...” — Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving hooks' concept of healing through communion directly answers Fromm's identification of separateness as humanity's dee...
“The awareness of human separation, without reunion by love, is the source of ...” — Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving hooks provides the precise remedy for Fromm's diagnosis, with her emphasis on communion as healing directly addressin...
“The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, fo...” — Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic Both authors recognize connection as fundamentally healing and transformative—Lorde's joy-sharing bridges and hooks' ...
“What makes loneliness so unbearable is the loss of one's own self which can b...” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism hooks' insight about healing through communion directly echoes Arendt's recognition that authentic selfhood requires ...
“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.” — Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving Both thinkers position love and connection as essential to human wellbeing, with hooks extending Fromm's insight by e...
“Hell is other people.” — Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit These quotes present opposing visions of intersubjectivity—Sartre's others as imprisoning objectifiers versus hooks' ...
“If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don't see.” — James Baldwin, A Rap on Race Both Baldwin and hooks recognize that genuine love and healing require the difficult communion of shared truth-tellin...
“Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human ten...” — Rollo May, Love and Will May's conception of care as the source of human tenderness finds its natural expression in hooks' vision of healing t...