Dejection Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows,…

— Gustave Flaubert

•"for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning…

— Gustave Flaubert

Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.

— Gustave Flaubert

Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska.…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I…

— Gustave Flaubert

“A life of hardship and personal suffering is unavoidable. A person must endure many humiliations of the mind and body, and expect persons whom…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“There are times when everything wearies us, including what we would normally find restful. Wearisome things weary us by definition, restful things by the…

— Fernando Pessoa

Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Je pensais de meme que notre jeunesse etait finie et le bonheur manqué. I thought too that our youth was over and we had…

— Alain-Fournier