#loneliness

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general. ↗

— Lorraine Hansberry

#exposure #general #her #herself #interesting

I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around recklessly, where I’m almost overwhelmed with the amount of attention and love I receive from Mami’s family. In New York, I’m invisible. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#coming-of-age #family #home #identity #invisibility

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books. ↗

— Alex Flinn

#beastly #books #friendship #loneliness #reading

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#humanity #imagination #loneliness #poetry #solipsism

You do not know a situation until you experience . ↗

— AceQwetyu

#facts-of-life #inspirational-life #loneliness-quotes #experience

An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#loneliness #sincerity #art

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self. ↗

— Brendan Francis

#deep #innermost #loneliness #lost #powerful

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#alive #feel #get #loneliness #make

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. ↗

— Ferdinand Marcos

#act #acting #alone #always #coin

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#between #cold #europe #extraordinary #loneliness