Ennui Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Download Open image “Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ennui Life Light
The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“The object most interesting to me for the residue of my life, will be to see you both developing daily those principles of virtue… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Life's sunniest hours are not without The shadow of some lingering doubt-- Amid its brightest joys will steal Spectres of evil yet to feel--… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over; One thing unshaken stays: Life, that hath Death for spouse, hath Chance for lover;… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
•"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 Copy Share Image
How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“IMPERMANENCE "Driftsand of the hours. Quietly disappearing, continuously, even the happily consecrated design. Life blows away, always: pillars already rise without connection, carrying nothing… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
Our negative life situations are essential elements for us to fulfill our intended destiny. However, unless we possess the power of endurance to live… — Chin-Ning Chu Copy Share Image
The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking it is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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, but kindly,… — 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 and isolation… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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 stupid, instead,… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot stage of early youth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.” — Michael Cunningham 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 minds. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real life. Here… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
