#ennui

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself. ↗

— Will Durant

#life-is-evil #schopenhauer #death

I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used. ↗

— Marsha Norman

#ennui #suicide #boredom

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#echo #ennui #itself #tearing #time

Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and ensnared you with long-term payment plans. Join the Rat Race "just for a while." Concentrate on your career "just for a while." Move in with your girlfriend "just for a while." Find a bigger place, out in the burbs "just for a while." Lie down in that wooden box "just for a while. ↗

— Christopher Brookmyre

#death #ennui #satire #suburbs #death

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. ↗

— Helen Keller

#amount #devil #die #energy #ennui

He wanted to fuck her loudly on a hard bed with rain beating on the windows. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#sexuality #rain

Aujourd'hui, quelque part, un trésor vous attend. Ce peut être un petit sourire, ce peut être une grande conquête, peu importe. La vie est faite de petits et de grands miracles. Rien n'est ennuyeux, car tout change constamment. L'ennui n'est pas dans le monde, mais dans la manière dont nous voyons le monde. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#ennui #routine #vie #change

No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off like the radio when there's nothing on I want to listen to. It's all I really have that belongs to me and I'm going to say what happens to it. And it's going to stop. And I'm going to stop it. So. Let's just have a good time. ↗

— Marsha Norman

#ennui #suicide #change

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary. ↗

— Walter M. Miller Jr.

#change #death #depression #ennui #life

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#boredom #cynism #ennui #humor #death