The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui. — Helen Westley Copy Share Image
... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
“Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“There were moments when life at school became a matter of utter indifference to him. Then the putty of his everyday concerns… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“Terror came. I would fall into a slumber of days, and getting up would go on with the same sad dreams. I… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“He suffered from indigestion now nearly every afternoon in his life, but as he lacked introspection he projected the associated discomfort upon… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
If you want to live in 'white world,' if you want to experience the stultifying boredom and penetrating ennui that homogeneity can… — Greg Proops Copy Share Image
“Tea leaves thwart those who court catastrophe, designing futures where nothing will occur: cross the gypsy’s palm and yawning she will still… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“For he has faith enough, he feels, if he were really to delve into himself, faith enough to move mountains, but he… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“His hatred for all was so intense that it should extinguish the very love from which it was conceived. And thus, he… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I once asked Arpit Bala, an influencer with a brutally loyal following, about the resentment felt by office-goers against self-employed content creators.… — Anurag Minus Verma Copy Share Image
“In a lifeworld, where we can be what we are, and not what people expect us to be, we can escape a… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“Ennui had more distractions far more amusing than the automatons of a watchmaker in Mühlenberg.” — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
What saved me from total academic failure and overwhelming ennui, was my love of libraries and all they encompass. — Hilary Farr Copy Share Image
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
