Charm

“There was always someone somewhere discovering a different life, a different experience than the day before, stepping into uncharted territory. But I wasn't going anywhere.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

“for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I wondered how many people managed to go on living when there was nothing to be hoped from within.”
― Simone de Beauvoir