Quotes About Ennui

life's work over, rural ennui stretching ahead: a procession of days, Sunday to Sunday, all without shape.

So with a face set in Prisoner's Ennui, an expression I was getting quite good at, I allowed Lazlo to lead me over to the thick bulletproof window, with its phone receiver on each side, its chairs facing each other through the glass, and Deborah sitting in the seat on the far side.

I don't know how it is, but I am so tired of commonplace happiness and commonplace goals.

Darling, I'm so unutterably bored as to be a hazard

There was no grandeur here, no sublimity, only weariness and gloom.

No one, it appeared to Barney, had anything to do now; the weight of empty time hung over them all.

We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope. Falling into an interminable ennui.

It's easy for you people here; you live a safe, purposeless life, nothing to do, nothing to worry about.

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope. Falling into an indeterminable ennui.

All he feels is the bored emptiness of the flat, flat world. And there's no one who bores him more than himself.

Tuer confère un style à l'existence. C'est ce possible continuellement présent qui, par son insertion inavouable dans la vie courante, injecte à celle-ci le tonus sans quoi elle se résume à une reptation asthénique et à l'interminable expérimentation de l'ennui.

Encaro o futuro como uma eternidade de provações e fastio. Minha covardia me impede de por fim aos meus dias.

I'm bored of being bored because being bored is so boring.

Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.

Civilisation and top hats bore me.

[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.

I was becoming slightly bored

He should have been nothing but exhilarated. Somehow, he merely felt tired. Bone weary with the routine of his life, the predictability of it.

One of ennui's most terribel components is the overwhelming feeling of ennui that comes over you whenever you try to explain it.

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

She was tired of sad modern endings. She was tired of modern sadness and ennui. She narrated things calmly and swiftly like and easy-running stream

les maux atroces que les hommes ont imaginés pour oublier l'immense ennui qui les ronge ne sont que des jeux d'enfants.

I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature,

I'm bored with it all. - Last Words