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More Ennui Quotes

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• Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. — Emile M. Cioran
• music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui. — Thomas Jefferson
• Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied… — M.F.K. Fisher
• The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui. — Emile M. Cioran
• Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. — Gautama Buddha
• One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men… — Russell Kirk
• I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood. — Gregory Maguire
• Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
• It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed… — George Will

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