Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire. — George Bancroft 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
Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom,… — Charles Baudelaire 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“Soon, what was tedious was everything. 'Beautiful things, they're so tedious! Paintings, they're enough to drive you mad...How right you are, it's… — Marcel Proust 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
•"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
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
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
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
(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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“I had a hunger for things I knew realistically I didn't actually care for.” — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
