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
Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources. — Madame Roland 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
You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have… — Samuel Johnson 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 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
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
“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
... 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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“Ennui had more distractions far more amusing than the automatons of a watchmaker in Mühlenberg.” — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
