SO GOOD QUOTES

Category: DESPONDENCY

  • He was self-indulgent, a failure. He had not abandoned failure; it was his address, his street, his one comfort.

    Light Years
    James Salter

  • I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next.

    —Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born

  • “What do you do from morning to night?”

    “I endure myself.”

    —Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born

  • More than once, I have managed to leave my room, for if I had stayed there I could not be sure of being able to resist some sudden resolution. The street is more reassuring, you think less about yourself there.

    —Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born

  • To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression.

    —Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born

  • “Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”

    Nausea
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • Better to go back to the studio in Via Margutta, where despair expressed itself, at least, in the empty canvas upon which I would never paint.

    Boredom
    Alberto Moravia

  • It was true that nothing had changed, but I was again going to find myself face to face with despair, with the same despair, also unchanged, that had formerly made me run away.

    Boredom
    Alberto Moravia

  • Thus I felt that I did not want to see people nor yet to be alone; that I did not want to stay at home nor yet to go out; that I did not want to travel nor yet to go on living in Rome; that I did not want to paint nor yet not to paint; that I did not want to stay awake nor yet to go to sleep; that I did not want to make love nor yet not to do so; and so on.

    Boredom
    Alberto Moravia

  • Besides, when it came to the point of choosing a record, I was paralyzed by this thought: what sort of music is it that can be listened to in these moments of boredom?

    Boredom
    Alberto Moravia