Feel Despair Quotes by Lucy Grealy

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• When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great…
• Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and…
• I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was…
• I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant…
• I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing…
• While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as deftly as…
• I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.
• All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.
• Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being on the…
• Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives…
• I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to…
• Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people...

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