"When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I……" — Lucy Grealy
"When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like."
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17 Quotes by Lucy Grealy
Lucy Grealy has 17 quotes on this site.
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Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain…
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I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my…
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I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever,…
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I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated…
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While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as…
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I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.
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All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.
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Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being…
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Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of…
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I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty…
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Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people...
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Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
— Dido Armstrong
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
— Jane Austen
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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