Malaise Quotes
28 quotes by 27 authors
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For the other end of the spectrum, the 50 to 85 percent of the world's population who are not the recipients of privilege, the world…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two…
— Jimmy Carter
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I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from the heavens, absorbed…
— Shaun Tan
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It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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We have a natural constant craving for leadership. Democracy is always a fragile and imperfect achievement. Yet a distinct feeling of malaise in our political…
— Tim Soutphommasane
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Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade.
— David Baddiel
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Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups,…
— Jaron Lanier
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...many of us inhibit our capacity for growth because the culture encourages us to live lives of uniformity. We stall, deny, ignore the ensuing crisis…
— Joan Anderson
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Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of…
— Harold Bloom
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In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I suffer from a spiritual malaise which manifests itself in outbursts of vicious rage.
— Jack Vance
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I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired…
— James Fallows
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Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange,…
— Carlos Fuentes
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... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an interest in science…
— Paul Theroux
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The fact that John Prescott is being paid large sums of money to do little or nothing adds to the general malaise surrounding this government…
— Vince Cable
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Two problems of our country - energy and malaise.
— Jimmy Carter
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The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the social…
— Frederick Lenz
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The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial…
— C.S. Lewis
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A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that…
— Umberto Eco
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How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build…
— E. M. Forster
Who Wrote These Malaise Quotes
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