Quotes About Wallowing

People collect boredom, they hoard it, they wallow in it, hoping that one day it'll be of interest and become an effete ennui. Let me tell you, it doesn't.

The thing is, I am addicted to social media. I can while away hours scrolling through posts and pictures, wallowing in the details of other people's lives, catching up on news, giggling at funny videos, all the while oblivious to a sunny afternoon or the washing up.

Remind me, Jubal said to her, to write a popular article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to tthe unecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the toubles and sins of five billion strangers. The title is 'Gossip Unlimited' - no, make that 'Gossip Gone Wild.'

write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers. Title

life was full of poignant truths and wrongs that could never be righted. There was nothing to be gained from wallowing in them.

There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we don't have all the time in the world, we have all the world, and not enough time.

The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.

I was too busy wallowing in pain and bitterness. Too busy being tragic.

maybe it's just my imagination but I can smell the stench of a decaying humanity wallowing in the throes of hypocrisy, apathy, misery and I take a DEEP breath before stepping out.

We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.

Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing.

Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people and depressing elephants

In her glamorous quest for the darkest light and the lowest high, she now found herself wallowing on the bottom of a filthy garbage bin.

America's been living on borrowed time all these years... Playing the world's whore, wallowing in our greed. Now we're going to pay the price.

Poor me. There's nothing so sweet as wallowing in it is there? Wallowing is sex for depressives.

Regret is an appalling waste of energy. You can't build on it. It is only for wallowing in. —KATHERINE MANSFIELD

This would provide a fitting message, answer and explanation for the busybodies of America who currently are wallowing in indignation, their favorite puddle.

One reason why doing nothing is so unpleasant is that our thoughts, unfettered by distraction, take us to uncomfortable places. Boredom is the opposite of BDSM: instead of escaping from the self, you're wallowing in it.