https://soaib.me/tags/loneliness/Recent content in Loneliness on SoaibuzzamanHugoen-USThu, 29 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://soaib.me/posts/the-lonely-city/Thu, 29 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://soaib.me/posts/the-lonely-city/<blockquote> <p>“Sometimes, all you need is permission to feel.”</p></blockquote> <p>Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City isn’t a cure for loneliness—it’s a quiet companion to it. Part memoir, part cultural meditation, the book explores what it means to be alone in a crowd, tracing Laing’s own isolation in New York alongside the lives of artists like Hopper, Warhol, and Wojnarowicz, who each wrestled with solitude in their work.</p> <p>Loneliness, Laing writes, feels “like being hungry when everyone around you is readying for a feast.” It’s more than a lack of company—it’s a lack of belonging, of being seen, of being touched. The book is filled with moments that pierce: the man whose room was discovered, after his death, to be crammed with unseen paintings; the person who likened hell not to fire but to ice—frozen in isolation.</p>