Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic traincar constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." ... I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Disappointment, Regret, Believe

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

• Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Years, People, Car

• Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Regret, Believe, Sadness

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

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