Quotes About Ennui

Nothing, nothing, the whole long day, nothing.

I don't think I'll ever get that tour ennui. Just getting to visit New York and all these different places - I'm always so excited to look at the window. I look like a crazy tourist stumbling around... 'This is beautiful.'

The sunlight bores the daylights out of me

We're even more dazed than usual. Here we sit, empty, bewildered, contented. We have nothing to talk about, because nothing happens to us anymore, we're too poor, maybe life is sick of us. Why not?

by the time I reached Nice, I felt my spirits fail. My youthful impetuousness had long since been destroyed: ennui had sapped my strength.

But I see New York written all over it. Ennui. Futility. Dreary nights. Sad jokes. Creamy voices. Crooning melodies.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Life and Death are just things you do when you're bored. - Fear (is a Man's Best Friend)

How does one get bored of life?

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

The solitary speaks.One receives as a reward for much ennui , ill-humour and boredom, such as a solitude without friends, books, duties or passions must entail, one harvests those quarters of an hour of the deepest immersion in oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the most potent refreshing draught from the deepest well of his own being.

When the "deity" of the other is deflated, either because it is exhausted or because one becomes accustomed to living with a "god" or a "goddess," there is a terrific sense of ennui and boredom.

MY METAL ARMS ARE IMMUNE TO THE FATIGUES THAT PLAGUE MORTAL LIMBS; THOUGH I CONFESS THAT AGAINST THE ENNUI THAT PLAGUES MORTAL MINDS I FIND NO SUCH IMMUNITY" --Brain Drain

All my struggles, my triumphs, my losses, were being eclipsed by what was being revealed now. Had ever ennui and despair been banished by such revelations, such precious gifts of truth?

My life is so boring that your brains are going to melt and come out of your eyes.

Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.

We have all done this before; we're bored and terrified.

I like interesting people. I'm boring myself, but I'm drawn to greatness.

Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.

The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

'Extract' was kind of a grown up 'Office Space' in the sense of talking about the ennui of being a successful person in America if you don't have some real passion in your life for something to care about.