342 Quotes by Lena Dunham

I can’t imagine a passionate affair with a native man.

You should always go where there is a ‘you-shaped’ hole in the world.

I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you’re dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.

I’m glad if my work can make a difference.

I mean, I – it’s so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I’ve been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.

A month into the semester, I would start showing up twenty minutes late to class again. The rewards weren’t enough to keep me on task, and life got in the way. My mind wandered to the future, postcollege, when I’d create my own schedule that served my need to eat a rich snack every five to fifteen minutes. As for the disappointment written across the teacher’s face? I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, care.

It’s interesting how we often can’t see the ways in which we are being strong – like, you can’t be aware of what you’re doing that’s tough and brave at the time that you’re doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you’d be scared.

I was raised on the internet.

Over time, my belief in many things has wavered: marriage, the afterlife, Woody Allen.