Quotes by : Olivia Laing

I saw him freeing me from the silences of the interior life.

What does it feel like to be lonely? It feels like being hungry: like being hungry when everyone around....

Speech failures, communication breakdowns, misunderstandings, mishearings, episodes of muteness, stuttering....

Is sex a cure for loneliness, and if it is, what happens if our body or sexuality is considered deviant....

People don't like to talk about alcohol. They don't like to think about it, except in the most superficial....

[of Nan Goldin] In an afterword to Ballad written in 2012, she declared: ‘I decided as a young girl....

This is what's so terrifying about being lonely: the instinctive sense that it is literally repulsive,....

That autumn, I kept coming back to Hopper’s images, drawn to them as if they were blueprints and I....

There are kinds of solitude that provide a respite from loneliness, a holiday if not a cure.

At some point, you have to set down the past. At some point, you have to accept that everyone was doing....