Erin Morgenstern Quotes

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

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.

If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.

A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

I get the urge for going/But I never seem to go.

It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything.

You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.

Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.

To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

Not to decide is to decide.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.

I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.

Boredom is rage spread thin.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

A minority of malcontents, some justly, some unjustly, angry with the present state of things, will always exist in this world.

I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made.

We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.

It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.

I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.

He who hesitates, meditates horizontally

Overthinking is often a product of underdoing.

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.