Ennui Quote by Tama Janowitz Download Open image ““I had a hunger for things I knew realistically I didn't actually care for.”” — Tama Janowitz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ennui
“No matter how much it takes in, this hunger never goes away... Because it desires nothing else.” — Kaori Yuki Copy Share Image
“The more he knew, the more he desired to know. He had mad hungers that grew more ravenous as he fed them.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“He didn't like to be seen needing it - as if hunger were a sign of weakness.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Have you ever wanted something that you knew you shouldn’t have? That it was wrong on every level, but you knew you needed it?” — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
“I gave in to that feeling. I didn't care what it made me -weak selfish, stupid, terrible.” — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“I realized that I couldn’t knowingly look to food for a way out when it had so clearly led me here. It wasn’t hunger… — Andie Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I wanted her in a way that made me feel like every second I was sated and starving.” — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“Craving for what you don’t have kills your enjoyment for what you already have.” — Tapan Ghosh Copy Share Image
“I don't want to care. But I can tell by how disappointed I feel that I do care.” — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
Why would I want to read something about somebody that's just a really nice, decent person who overcomes terrible trials? That's not how life… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
“I don't like him...he makes me feel like he's going to throw me in a coffin and walk around on top of it.” — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own. — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
If you want to write about a person who isn't nice, people say, "This is a bad book. It's about somebody I couldn't stand."… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
I think in a lot of ways, writing, when you're really in there, is like being an actress because you're in somebody else's head. — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
I think it's true about people now being closer to their parents, since the '60s, really. The parents are no longer from a different… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
I'm writing what I want to write. But it's almost an act of rebellion on my part. Because as a person, I've always wanted… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars. — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless,… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead,… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot stage of early youth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real life. Here… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
