Eswari Das

“Mary Poppins was very vain and liked to look her best. Indeed, she was quite sure that she never looked anything else.”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins

“I wanted very much not to be where I was. In fact part of the trouble seemed to be that where I was wasn’t anywhere at all. My life felt empty and unreal... I felt like I was in danger of vanishing, though at the same time the feelings I had were so raw and overwhelming that I often wished I could find a way of losing myself altogether, perhaps for a few months, until the intensity diminished.”
― Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

“If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, I hope it lands on a philosophy professor.”
― Stephen Colbert, I Am America

“Of these latter, desolating states, she comments: ‘Loneliness, in its quintessential form, is of a nature that is incommunicable by the one who suffers it. Nor, unlike other non-communicable emotional experiences, can it be shared via empathy. It may well be that the second person’s empathic abilities are obstructed by the anxiety-arousing quality of the mere emanations of the first person’s loneliness.”
― Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone