#ennui

In the street, he turned west and walked against a tide of blank-eyed, gum-chewing faces. A taxi went over a manhole cover, clink-clank. Steam was rising from an excavation at the corner. The world was like a puzzle with half the pieces missing. What was the pont of all these drab buildings, this dirty sky? ↗

— Damon Knight

#onomatopoeia #prose-poetry #urban-life #life

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