Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if… — Lorraine Hansberry · Skopia

← Back to quotes

Personal journal

Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Lorraine Hansberry

1962

★ 5.3

Other tags relating to this quote

Topic

Uniqueness of each person

Medium

Personal journal

Time

Person

Lorraine Hansberry

Provenance

Citation

Hansberry, Lorraine. Diary entry. 1 May 1962.

Related quotes

Other quotes that share a subject, a time, or a voice with this one.

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest · 1996

Another quote aboutTopic·Uniqueness of each person

I just want you to know that you're very special... And the only reason I'm telling you is that I don't know if anyone else ever has.

Stephen Chbosky

The Perks of Being a Wallflower · 1999

Another quote aboutTopic·Uniqueness of each person

Though it be a thrilling and marvelous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so, doubly dynamic-to be young, gifted and black.

Lorraine Hansberry

1964

Another quote byPerson·Lorraine Hansberry