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The curse of the great is ennui.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
— Agnes Repplier
Music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.
— Thomas Jefferson
The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.
— Samuel Johnson
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Weltanschaung as Ennui [10w] When world-view turns to world-weariness,
we see staleness in everything. — Beryl Dov
They are not so much afraid of ennui as of labour without pleasure;
— Friedrich Nietzsche
His exhaled smoke was the exact colour of ennui.
— Daniel Kraus
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
— Charles De Montesquieu
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
— Gautama Buddha
Ennui is the enemy.
— Oscar Wilde
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
— Thomas Jefferson
Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
— Victor Hugo
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
— Emile M. Cioran
It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.
— William Hazlitt
Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.
— Oscar Wilde
Sealed off from enchantment, the modern buffered self is also sealed off from significance, left to ruminate in a stew of its own ennui.
— James K.A. Smith
Tedium and ennui are the demons of modernity. These haunt us when the routines fail, the narratives dissolve, and time disintegrates (p. 718).
— James K.A. Smith
The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
— Oscar Wilde
When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.
— Walter M. Miller Jr.
The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.
— Helen Westley
One of ennui's most terribel components is the overwhelming feeling of ennui that comes over you whenever you try to explain it.
— Ingmar Bergman
Some people just live out their whole lives with some sort of ache in their heart they never resolve.
— Eda J. Vor
We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.
— Sophie Swetchine
Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.
— Ninon De L'Enclos
On top of pique, umbrage, and ennui. Oh, the French diseases of the soul.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
— Emil Cioran
Oh God, not another fucking beautiful day.
— James Fox
He thought of hanging himself, to pass the time.
— Johnny Rich
Time went by. It could be proved that it did, although so little happened.
— Elizabeth Taylor
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
ennui - that dreaded mire of the human emotions.
— Amor Towles
I am paddling laps in a demitasse of home-brewed ennui
— Michael Perry
Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui.
— Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand
Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh, believe me, that when three great passions, such as sorrow, love, and gratitude fill the heart, ennui can find no place." "You
— Alexandre Dumas
Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian.
— David Foster Wallace
Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.
— Luke Rhinehart
Love is an emotion too often threatened by ennui to attain to the grand passion for which I have long since ceased to hope.
— Tatamkhulu Afrika
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
— Charles Caleb Colton
With the awakening of his emotions, his first perception was a sense of futility, a dull ache at the utter grayness of his life.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)
— Terry Pratchett
Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
— Margaret Halsey
Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The xcursion helped dislodge your ... sense of ennui?
— David Mitchell
Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.
— Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.
— Aaron Allston
Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.
— Ninon De L'Enclos
After work, she wandered around the center of Baltimore, aimlessly, interested in nothing. Was this what the novelists meant by ennui?
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I hate the lackadaisical ennui of a sun too preoccupied with itself to notice the infinite hours we spend in its presence.
— Tahereh Mafi
The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.
— Blaise Pascal
Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.
— Gregory Maguire
Looking at Tim, one cannot help feeling great waves of uncertainty, an absence of aim, of purpose, as if he is a person who simply doesn't matter.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
— Bertrand Russell
Now is the autumn of our ennui.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Thus peopleso it seems to me
Become good friends from sheer ennui. — Alexander Pushkin
Boredom looms over the liveliest lessons, seeking to destroy.
— Marina Leigh Duff
Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam.
— Henry David Thoreau
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.
— D.H. Lawrence
That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau