Quote by Aaron Goldfarb

“It saved me from ennui,” he answered, yawning. “Alas! I already feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“That was what it felt like - as if one had always been in that place and never been bored although nothing had ever…

— C.S. Lewis

“It seemed to me that I was suddenly in the presence of incosolable, unavoidable, and immense pain. The thought of that death hunted me…

— Hélène Berr

“Kind of just existed from day to day, on weird plateau of feeling nothingness.”

— Cat Clarke

“There were absences in my life which were a comfort, then were was a presence that ruined me.”

— Robert Pinget

“the xcursion helped dislodge your … sense of ennui?”

— David Mitchell

“You're just not always in a place for as long as you thought you'd be.”

— Lori Lansens

“It felt like there was a whole world inside her.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits.”

— Nell Casey

“I just lay there, helplessly subject to my anxieties. A good many of them I could have put out of my mind, if I'd…

— Marilynne Robinson

“As I sat there, I found myself thinking of things I hadn't thought of for years, old emotions watching over me, new thoughts and…

— Jojo Moyes

“I felt ancient and exhausted. I felt like a prisoner within myself and as if I was just watching a movie that was playing…

— J M Northup