... 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
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
If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“Ennui had more distractions far more amusing than the automatons of a watchmaker in Mühlenberg.” — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
“He suffered from indigestion now nearly every afternoon in his life, but as he lacked introspection he projected the associated discomfort upon… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“There were moments when life at school became a matter of utter indifference to him. Then the putty of his everyday concerns… — Robert Musil 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
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
“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
“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
