“Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.”
“Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.”
“Ennui had more distractions far more amusing than the automatons of a watchmaker in Mühlenberg.”
“Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors”
“Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage.”
“Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.”