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Quotes About Ennui

To Connie, everything in her world and life seemed worn out, and her dissatisfaction was older than the hills.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Besides, life is so interesting to him, that he has no time for the faults of temper which generally have their source in ennui; there is no reason why he should be peevish or sulky or obstinate when he is always kept well amused.
~ Charlotte M. Mason
i am awake only in what i love & desire to the point of terror -- everything else is just shrouded furniture, quotidian anaesthesia, shit-for-brains, sub-reptilian ennui of totalitarian regimes, banal censorship & useless pain ...
~ Hakim Bey
Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence.
~ Leo Stein
stupefied boredom.
~ Janet Evanovich
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. —VIKTOR FRANKL, Auschwitz survivor and founder of Logotherapy, Man's Search for Meaning
~ Timothy Ferriss
The only horrible thing in the world is ennui, Dorian. That is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness.
~ Oscar Wilde
The generation into which I was born was tedious.
~ Oscar Wilde
"The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom."
~ Albert Schweitzer
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
~ Stendhal
wealthy, privileged and bored by the undemanding
~ Wilbur Smith
I have a fear of being boring.
~ Christian Bale
There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.
~ Helen DeWitt
But the grinding of even soft stones is a tedious and laborious process; granite or diorite, both extremely hard, demand a willingness to endure drudgery that no human group had ever imposed in itself before. Our very word to express ennui, 'boring,' derives from-boring. Here was ritual repetition pushed almost beyond endurance.
~ Lewis Mumford
I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.
~ David Mamet
Dans cet âge heureux où rien ne marquait les heures, rien n'obligeait à les compter, le temps n'avait d'autre mesure que l'amusement et l'ennui.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I have no taste for work any longer, I can do nothing more except wait for night. 530: Things are bad! Things are very bad: I have it, the filth, the Nausea.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I'm bored, I'm the chairman of the board.
~ Iggy Pop
I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry.
~ David Foster Wallace
Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian.
~ David Foster Wallace
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world.
~ William Shakespeare
I'm bored with it all. - Last Words
~ Winston Churchill
The eyes of boredom, old buddy, are bigger than those of fear! When you're bored, God only knows what you might imagine!
~ Witold Gombrowicz
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~ Unknown