Shaun Tan Quotes

I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.

Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.

I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.

We were fractious and overpaid. Our mornings lacked promise. At least those of us who smoked had something to look forward to at ten-fifteen.

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.

The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

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

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.

Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.

How does one get bored of life?

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.

I'm incapable of feeling any joy.

A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million people.