Explore Quotes by Bret Easton Ellis

Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning.

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say "I love you I love you I love you" while stripping. I want you so bad it stings.

I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.

I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.

My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.

I am gripped by an existential panic.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all.

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

I had dreamed of something so different from what reality was now offering up, but that dream had been a blind man's vision. That dream was a miracle. The morning was fading. And I remembered yet again that I was a tourist here.

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)

You learn to move on without the people you love.

By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.

Fear never shows up and the party ends early.

People are afraid to merge.

What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?