Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes About Sadness

Quotes about: Sadness

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Sadness, Rooms, Excitement

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

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