World Weary Quotes

“I was now, all the time, unutterably tired as if simply keeping alive was a terrible effort.”
― Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head

“According to Sarah, who had gone two years ago, prom was famous for being an overpriced disappointment where most people had no fun.”
― Cammie McGovern, Say What You Will

“You see—I hope you never get there yourself—but some of us get to the point in life where we realise that nothing matters. Nothing fucking matters.”
― Julian Barnes, The Only Story

“She was old; millions of years old, she felt. And at last, she could bear the burden of herself no more.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

“O we are wearied of this sense of guilt,
Wearied of pleasure's paramour despair,
Wearied of every temple we have built,
Wearied of every unanswered right, unanswered prayer,
For man is weak; God sleeps: and heaven is high:
One fiery-colored moment: one great love: and lo! we die.”
― Oscar Wilde, Complete Poetry

“What else would she have to go through, she wondered, to fill up the pages of the story of her life? That volume was already very crammed.”
― Anna Godbersen, Envy