Animal Quote by Ottessa Moshfegh

Sometimes I think I'm a nihilist because it doesn't matter, none of this matters. We're all following the will of some unknowable higher power,…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

If you look at the horror genre, that work is all about making people uncomfortable by stimulating our fear of death.

— Ottessa Moshfegh

“...the face I wore at work, my death mask.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh

I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

Indifference is the saddest state of being. It's like PTSD - you're not gonna fight, you're not gonna run, you're just frozen there, feeling…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

“Talking to Reva about misery was insufferable. 'Look on the bright side,' was what she wanted everyone to do.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh

What's inspiring me the most [is] injustice. My own growth as a member of the human race, in terms of the veils being lifted,…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

“Knowledge of anything current or faddish made me feel I was just a victim of isolation.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh

“I wanted to hold onto the house the way you'd hold onto a love letter. It was proof that I had not always been…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

“Like a favorite song you’ve heard so many times it begins to annoy you,”

— Ottessa Moshfegh

“I watched that old world go by, away and away, gone gone gone, until, like me, it disappeared.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh

“I was nervous. It had been a long time since I’d gone any place I wanted to be.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh