Malaise Quotes

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

The more I get used to my life, the more restless I become.

It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.

Two problems of our country - energy and malaise.

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

All the legislation in the world cannot fix what is wrong with America.

As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.

I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.

At times of general malaise and social breakdown, it is not uncommon for … movements to arise to replace lost hopes by idle dreams: dreams of a savior who will lead us from bondage …. Some may yearn for a lost golden age, or succumb to the blandishments of the new Messiahs who come to the fore at such moments.

How sick i am! that thought Always comes to me with horror. Is it this strange for everybody? But such fugitive feelings have always been my metier.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

Once you start moving [market] lower, then you trigger of all sorts of things. You trigger people who have to sell because they're over-levered. So they sell their winners and their losers. They're just trying to raise cash. So, what you then get is spreading malaise throughout the global markets.

Families have always been in flux and often in crisis; they have never lived up to nostalgic notions about "the way things used tobe." But that doesn't mean the malaise and anxiety people feel about modern families are delusions, that everything would be fine if we would only realize that the past was not all it's cracked up to be. . . . Even if things were not always right in families of the past, it seems clear that some things have newly gone wrong.

I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.

The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America.

I'd rather be nauseous than tired, I think.

Most people are telling me I look horrible.

... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an interest in science or art. No one even talked politics. It was all idleness, and whenever I asked someone a question, no matter how simple, no matter how well the person spoke English, there was always a long pause before I got a reply, and I found these Pacific pauses maddening. And there was giggling but no humor - no wit. It was just foolery.

and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else.

I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our countryenergy and malaise.

There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.

People collect boredom, they hoard it, they wallow in it, hoping that one day it'll be of interest and become an effete ennui. Let me tell you, it doesn't.

I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.

Seasick," Scatty mumbled. "That's exactly what it feels like. Only worse.

I don't want to pretend like I'm clairvoyant or anything, but I had a tremendous sense of malaise about our political future. This is right around the millennium, right around 1999, when I wrote it. The Sopranos certainly reflected that; when I saw that on the air, I was like "Oh my God, I'm not alone." But it doesn't seem that the culture really caught up with that. George W. Bush won two elections... I'm not even trying to say this from a political standpoint. I think there is a resonance to the kind of glory of that period, and the foreboding of what happened.