I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Copy Share Image
“Quinn had also been there, attempting to demonstrate to her the incredible ennui that accompanied immortal existence.” — Kirsten Beyer Copy Share Image
music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen. — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
“I had a hunger for things I knew realistically I didn't actually care for.” — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Adrenalin dispels boredom. Run, you sufferers from ennui! Run for your lives! — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“What's your usual gig?" "Physical fitness coach. I find it rather humdrum. Your assignment will be a welcome break in the quotidian… — Julian May Copy Share Image
“It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence… — Terence McKenna 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
“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 victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, gave his physicians strict… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do… — Abraham Myerson Copy Share Image
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions.… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in our homes such simple,… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“The object most interesting to me for the residue of my life, will be to see you both developing daily those principles… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot stage of… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally… — Joris-Karl Huysmans 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
“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
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