Quotes About Ennui

What saved me from total academic failure and overwhelming ennui, was my love of libraries and all they encompass.

In Yorkshire there is only the impetus of decline; the farms, the woolen mills, the dairy rounds wither, unravel and turn sour. The family wears out, stumbles politely, tripping over drink and ennui and a genteel surrender to the momentum of underachievement.

Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.

Boredom is easy. Which is why sadness hides there so readily. But don't be fooled for long. Dying of boredom. There's reason behind that idiom. It'll kill you sure enough.

Perhaps they are worse than evil—they are bored," Petra said.

alla fine prevaleva quel piatto e anestetizzante trascorrere del tempo, che non accendeva l'entusiasmo ma neppure infliggeva sofferenza.

Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.

He was not only a bore; he bored for England.

I hate getting bored.

As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.

I suppose that I'm easily bored.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Allora non v'importa più di nulla? M'importa tanto, che ho la nausea di tutto.

This makes my boredom worse. It's a real problem to decide whether it's more boring to do something boring than to pass along everything boring that comes in to somebody else and then have nothing to do at all.

Vampire Willow: Bored now.

It is the celestial ennui of apartmentsThat sends us back to the first idea.

Nothing", he said. "Except that my life, for the most part, has been very stale and colorless. Dead, I mean. The world has always been an empty place to me. I was incapable of enjoying even the simplest things. I felt dead in everything I did.

Her questions came with a kind of eagerness. The thought flashed across his mind that she must be very bored.

If smart phones had been around for women in the 1950s, 'The Feminine Mystique' might never have been written. The depression and ennui of housewives would have been blunted by Pinterest and Facebook.

People collect boredom, they hoard it, they wallow in it, hoping that one day it'll be of interest and become an effete ennui. Let me tell you, it doesn't.

In man, at least, satisfaction is commonly followed by boredom.

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying.

Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do.