FOMO

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He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast.

James Joyce

Dubliners

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FOMO

Author

James Joyce

Source

A Painful Case Dubliners

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1914 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners. Grant Richards, 1914.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners: Centennial Edition, edited by Terence Brown. Penguin Classics, 2014.

Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

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Topic

FOMO Isolation Unhappiness

Author

Mary Shelley

Source

Frankenstein

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1818 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones, 1818, ch. 10.

Current Citation

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text. Penguin Classics, 2018, ch. 10.

Why do I always have the feeling that everybody’s doing something better than me on Saturday afternoons?

Jerry Seinfeld

Seinfeld

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FOMO

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Jerry Seinfeld

Actor

Jerry Seinfeld

Source

Seinfeld

Medium

TV program

Genre

Sitcom Comedy (TV) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

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Citation

"The Parking Garage." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, directed by Tom Cherones, season 3, episode 6, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1991.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Erica Jong

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Topic

FOMO Jealousy

Author

Erica Jong

Source

How to Save Your Own Life

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages Definition

Language

English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Jong, Erica. How to Save Your Own Life. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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Topic

Missed opportunities The road not taken FOMO

Author

Jonathan Safran Foer

Source

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Houghlin Mifflin, 2005.