Quotes About Ennui

Boredom is the deadliest poison.

Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?

I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.

I'm losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.

My boredom with everything has numbed me.

So great is my tedium, so overwhelming the horror of being alive, that I cannot imagine what could possibly serve as a palliative, an antidote, a balm, a source of oblivion.

Yes, tedium is boredom with the world, the malaise of living, the weariness of having lived; in truth, tedium is the feeling in one's flesh of the endless emptiness of things.

Both objectively and subjectively speaking, I'm sick of myself. I'm sick of everything, and of everything about everything.

a tedium of feeling anything at all ...

El tedio no es la enfermedad del aburrimiento por no tener nada que hacer, sino la enfermedad más grave de sentir que no vale la pena hacer nada.

Yet dreamed landscapes are merely the smoke from known landscapes and the tedium of dreaming them is almost as great as the tedium of looking at the world. And hovering distractedly above all this, like a vast blue sky, the horror of living.

My least favorite aspect of shopping is shopping.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

Dios se aburre igual que el Diablo. El uno arriba y el otro abajo bostezan lúgubremente de la misma manera.

Work is wholesome, and there is plenty for everyone. It keeps us from ennui and mischief, is good for health and spirits, and gives us a sense of power and independence better than money or fashion.

Twenty-twenty-twenty-four hours to goI wanna be sedatedNothing to do, nowhere to goI wanna be sedated

Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.

I get bored easily. I've been bored most of my life.

The two real problems in life are boredom and death.

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

Dylan talked copiously then stopped, 'Somebody's boring me,' he said, 'I think its me.

If there's one thing I really distinguish in myself, it's my unlimited ability for getting tired of everything.

The universe transformed into a Sunday afternoon . . . it is the very definition of ennui, and the end of the universe.