Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

As the world is weary of me so am I of it.

I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place.

Unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money.

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in? That village, that city, that life? We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more.

That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now.

The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.

weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.

My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

No matter where you're going it's the wrong place.

It's true, I don't like the real world.

I guess I'm struck all the time by how outrageously wrong life is. There are times I can't stand to read the newspapers. It makes me insane.

I am disgusted and worn out with the system that seems to prevail.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

After you get what you want you don't want it.

I hate entertainment.

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

I can't stand most things that I see.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.

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