Quotes About Ennui

Léon was het uitzichtloos verliefd zijn meer dan beu; daarbij meldde zich de neerslachtigheid die wordt veroorzaakt door de sleur van een eentonig bestaan dat geen doel of leidraad heeft, dat niet wordt gedragen door enige hoop.

alla sur la Pâture, au haut de la côte d'Argueil, à l'entrée de la forêt ; il se coucha par terre sous les sapins, et regarda le ciel à travers ses doigts. – Comme je m'ennuie ! se disait-il, comme je m'ennuie !

ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.

Léon was weary of loving without any outcome; and he began to feel that extreme depression which the repetition of the same way of living induces in you, when no interests shape it and no hope sustains it. He was so bored of Yonville and of the Yonvillais, that the sight of certain people, of certain houses, irritated him beyond endurance; and the pharmacist, easy fellow though he was, had become completely insufferable to him.

Wearied with the commonplaces of a prosaic world, where even the joys of romance and adventure soon grow stale, St. John and I had followed enthusiastically every aesthetic and intellectual movement which promised respite from our devastating ennui.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

To be curious about a thing you have to find something surprising in it, and I'm afraid that nothing surprises me any more.

The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

Perhaps the world s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another. The opposite of boredom, in a word, is not pleasure, but excitement.

every external interest inspires some activity which, so long as the interest remains alive, is a complete preventive of ennui. Interest in oneself, on the contrary, leads to no activity of a progressive kind. It may lead to the keeping of a diary, to getting psycho-analysed, or perhaps to becoming a monk.

Boredom, like hookworm, is endemic.

Our boredom was ongoing, a collective boredom, and it would never die because we would never die.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

But as Nietzsche said, 'The gods furl their flags at boredom.

destined to founder in the ennui of a nothingness of insignificance that incubates this abandonment of Being that is proper to beings.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

The special-order French bees were prey to wanderlust and ennui. But

Tessa liked her, in a dreary sort of way – the sort of way one liked picking one's nails or staying in bed all morning.

We would all be better off dead, useless eaters of the lotus that we are.

Ainsi s'écoule toute la vie ; on cherche le repos en combattant quelques obstacles et si on les a surmontés le repos devient insupportable par l'ennui qu'il engendre. Il en faut sortir et mendier le tumulte.

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

Already she feels jaded. Weary, and gladly tired and old.