Bret Easton Ellis Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that everyone is operating on a very primitive level. I wonder what you and I will see in our lifetimes. It seems so hopeless yet we must keep on trying ... I guess we can't escape being a product of the times, can we?

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Feb 15, 2013

• A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire. I don't really need to pretend, because it's who I am, an emotional vampire. I've just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. That I feed off of other people's real emotions. Search for this night's prey. Who will it be?

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Letting Go, Real, Past

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Jul 27, 2011

• She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm standing by the door and I look over at the Elvis Costello poster, at his eyes, watching her, watching us, and I try to get her away from it, so I tell her to come over here, sit down, and she thinks I want to hug her or something and she comes over to me and puts her arms around my back and says something like 'I think we've all lost some sort of feeling.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Eye, Thinking, Doors

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “Less Than Zero”, p.118, Pan Macmillan

• When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I realized how very little I had in common with them – the career dads, the responsible and diligent moms – and I was soon filled with dread and loneliness. I locked in on the smug feeling of superiority that married couples give off and that permeated the air – the shared assumptions, the sweet and contented apathy, it all lingered everywhere – despite the absence in the room of anyone single at which to aim this.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Mom, Sweet, Couple

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “Lunar Park”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

• No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Writing, Joy, Feelings

  Interview with Ariel Adams, www.askmen.com.

• I think we've all lost some kind of feeling.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Thinking, Feelings, Kind

• Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Book, Feelings, Way

  "Bret Easton Ellis: 'So you're a misogynist, a racist - so what? Does it make your art less interesting?'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2010.

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