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
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
For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch… — Henry Miller 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
Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it. — Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon Copy Share Image
We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing. — 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
“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
“But she—her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“A bouquet yellow like remorse Hurts my view The cage The wheel The vile ennui of all mankind And no one no… — Hélène Baronne d’Oettingen Copy Share Image
Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
•"for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“He had let age take hold of him, as if ennui was an old man’s final gift to himself – the blessed… — Steven Erikson 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
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
Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness… — George Will Copy Share Image
Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you're committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
The days of life are consumed, one by one, without an object beyond the present moment; ever flying from the ennui of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
In these days of high-tech video games, it's remarkable that kids once got incredibly thrilled while pushing little metal racing cars around… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“You see, Dimitri and I, we are both suffering from ennui! We have still the match-boxes. But at last one gets tired… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“And I did nothing, nothing but try to hide from the horror of dying." He stopped, for saying the truth aloud was… — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
