Quotes About Ennui

But the ultimate aim of it all—what is it? To sustain ephemeral and tormented individuals through a short span of life, in the most fortunate case with endurable want and comparative freedom from pain, which, however, is at once attended with ennui; then the reproduction of this race and its striving.

His was the sceptical boredom of a whole generation, no longer the romantic ennui of a Werther or a Rene lamenting the passing of old beliefs, but the boredom of the new doubting heroes, the young chemists who angrily proclaim the world intolerable because they have not immediately found life at the bottom of their test tubes.

I think that the word bored does not get the attention it deserves. We speak of all sorts of terrible things that happen to people, but we rarely speak about one of the most terrible things of all : that is, being bored, being bored alone and, worse than that, being bored together.

More secrets are improperly disclosed from boredom than from any other motive;

The civilian world was a dull place, a tired three-piece orchestra, waiting for the word 'fun'.

Life has been so meagre, so insipid, so intolerably dull to eager and high-spirited souls!

Patriotism is a hard disease to eradicate, and ennui stamps us all.

Perhaps they are worse than evil - they are bored.

And, of course, it might simply be that everyone's become a little bored with one another, doing the same things over and over, hearing and telling the same stories.

He feels ennui depression adrift in his life. Purposeless, perhaps because —dig a well in the Sudan and thejanjaweed come in and shoot the people anyway —buy mosquito nets and the boys you save grow up to —rape women —set up cottage industries in Myanmar and the army —steals them and uses the women as slaves and Ben is starting to be afraid that he is starting to share Chon's opinion of the human species that people are basically shit.

Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

Life is first boredom, then fear.

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole.

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

This is a hell of dull talk... How about some of that champagne?

I'm getting as bored with dying as with everything else, he thought. 'It's a bore,' he said out loud. 'What is, my dear?' 'Anything you do too bloody long.

for nothing is more boring than being forced to play.

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

21 de noviembre noche "En todas partes me aburro

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes ennui of the higher ones.

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing so; but there was no real life in me.

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.