Michel Houellebecq Quotes

The world today doesn't please me.

I am furious about everything.

I can't stand most things that I see.

I think it's an awful drink, to be honest with you.

Oh, cold world -- I have grown so weary of you and all your horrible bathrooms.

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

The world itself makes us sick of the world.

Can the life of the time be caught in an advertisement? Is that how it is, really, in the meadows of the world?

the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)

But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness." "You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.

Of course, there are a lot of things I'm angry about in the world.

This is not to say that I wasn't completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn't exactly proud that my stepbrother was in there tongue wrestling with the second stupidest person in our class, after himself.

I've changed my mind about it (DH) - instead of being bad, it stinks.

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.

So anybody with any bit of intelligence has got to be pissed off because if they see how things are in the world they're not going to be happy with it.

Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations

Sometimes there just isn't enough vomit in the world.

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

There's so much destruction all over the world - and all you can do is complain about ME!

Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.

A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.

You have delighted us long enough.

["I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ] really jumped off the page. And there were so many specific notes within the context of the script. Music cues, for instance.