A Quote by Jonathan Franzen

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

Jonathan Franzen

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Jonathan Franzen
American - Celebrity
Born: August 17, 1959

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression's actual essence, which is an overwhelming estrangement from humanity. The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it.

Jonathan Franzen

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The perfection of rottenness.

William James

Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.

George Eliot

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

Ivan Turgenev

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

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The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything!

Marcus Aurelius

If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

John Milton

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Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.

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