Bret Easton Ellis Quotes

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.

I thought I was dead inside.

Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.

Alcoholics are mostly disappointed men.

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.

I was dead inside.

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.

You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

I have just gotten to the point where I have been very, very disgusted with the fact that nothing is going on down there.

When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.

While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the state of boredom to a state of futility and despair, which holds promise of dangers.

I've lost the ability to be surprised.

One of the key emotions a lot of people seem to be feeling is disillusionment, and what I try to do as a lyricist is touch on these emotions.

Living in hope is a really terrible thing.

It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It was not the thought that God was cruel that froze me. I had taught myself never to expect anything from Him. What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Now even that had flickered out.

I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.

He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.