Quotes by : Olivia Laing

The loneliness of difference, the loneliness of undesirability, the loneliness of not being admitted....

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....

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

Collapse, spread, merging, union: these things sound like the opposite of loneliness, and yet intimacy....

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

That’s the dream of sex, isn’t it? That you will be liberated from the prison of the body by the....

I felt like I was in danger of vanishing, though at the same time the feelings I had were so raw and....

Loneliness is personal, and it is also political. Loneliness is collective; it is a city. As to how to....