Ennui Quotes

45 Ennui quotes by 37 unique authors

Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety. — Blaise Pascal
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow… — Helen Keller
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight. — Baron de Montesquieu
Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash. — Chuck Palahniuk
Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints… — Louisa May Alcott
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
Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of… — Charles Baudelaire
The only horrible thing in the world is ennui. — Oscar Wilde
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there,… — Henry Miller
(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those districts… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At… — Vladimir Nabokov
Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder,… — David Foster Wallace
•"for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its… — Gustave Flaubert
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui. — Alexander Pushkin
Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time. — Emile M. Cioran
Now is the autumn of our ennui. — Chuck Palahniuk
If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from… — Terence McKenna
Pressing his thumb down on her jaw to part her lips, he kissed her again, angel dust glittering in the air. "Mmm." She rubbed against… — Nalini Singh
The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety. — Blaise Pascal
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish, - all duties… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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