"I'm on the verge of a total breakdown.……" — Jonathan Ames

"I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence."

— Jonathan Ames

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41 Quotes by Jonathan Ames

Jonathan Ames has 41 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on…
I was aware that I was acting atrociously but I couldn't stop myself. Rarely had I behaved in such a…
I wondered where the person was who had taken my place, who wanted to know what news people had been…
I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.
How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning…
To write about a place, you have to live there.
I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.
A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and…
As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.
For me, the past is dead. Can't go back.
Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because…
I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

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More Absurd Quotes

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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to… — Honore de Balzac
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. — Yogi Berra
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd. — Wendell Berry
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience… — Annie Besant
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our… — Bono
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of… — Samuel Butler
When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help… — David Byrne
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out… — Lord Byron
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. — Albert Camus
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. — Albert Camus
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them… — Albert Camus
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. — Miguel de Cervantes

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