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Two problems of our country - energy and malaise. -- Jimmy Carter
I suffer from a spiritual malaise which manifests itself in outbursts of vicious rage. -- Jack Vance
In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit. -- Brennan Manning
There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness. -- Mathieu Amalric
Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade. -- David Baddiel
Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise. -- Walker Percy
If white and black and red and brown can come together to focus our energies on overcoming the racial malaise that persists, then this will have been a great moment. -- Michael Eric Dyson
I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our countryenergy and malaise. -- Jimmy Carter
...many of us inhibit our capacity for growth because the culture encourages us to live lives of uniformity. We stall, deny, ignore the ensuing crisis because of confusion, malaise, and yes, even propriety. -- Joan Anderson
The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition. -- C. S. Lewis
The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the social conditioning that most individuals experience in the modern era. -- Frederick Lenz
I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone. -- James Fallows
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny. -- Umberto Eco
war has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions ... It has lodged in our souls as a kind of religion, a quick tonic for political malaise and a bracing antidote to the moral torpor of consumerist, market-driven cultures. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
The capitalist system is not delivering those decade-after-decade increases it promised. We're not where we should be in terms of our national economies. We don't know how to get out of this malaise and I think we now have to consider more radical policies. -- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media. It is a culture of reaction without action. -- Jaron Lanier
It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a protest march on the White House green it will not be for abortion rights or gay liberation, but because we're all so bummed out. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
Once you start moving [market] lower, then you trigger of all sorts of things. You trigger people who have to sell because they're over-levered. So they sell their winners and their losers. They're just trying to raise cash. So, what you then get is spreading malaise throughout the global markets. -- Mohamed El-Erian
How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive. -- George Eliot
As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the current malaise. -- Richard A. Epstein
Although the reasons for Michigan's malaise are varied, one big reason is our state's almost uniquely uncompetitive tax structure, which one General Motors official called the costliest of all jurisdictions where GM operates. -- Mike Bouchard
The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the social conditioning that most individuals experience in the modern era. -- Frederick Lenz
Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency -- Carlos Fuentes
We have a natural constant craving for leadership. Democracy is always a fragile and imperfect achievement. Yet a distinct feeling of malaise in our political culture lingers. There is something missing from our public debates. -- Tim Soutphommasane

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