music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui. — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
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
“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
“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
“Quinn had also been there, attempting to demonstrate to her the incredible ennui that accompanied immortal existence.” — Kirsten Beyer Copy Share Image
Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation… — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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
In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple… — Christian Nestell Bovee 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
“In the street, he turned west and walked against a tide of blank-eyed, gum-chewing faces. A taxi went over a manhole cover,… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui… — Rebecca Solnit 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
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
Pressing his thumb down on her jaw to part her lips, he kissed her again, angel dust glittering in the air. "Mmm."… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least… — Seneca the Younger 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
“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
“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
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
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
I am tired of looking on what is, One might as well see beauty never more, As look upon it with an… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor. — Joseph Brodsky 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
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
If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
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