Quotes About Listlessness

Nel caso attuale, per tornare al foglietto illustrativo delle pillole contro il mal di fegato, ne presentavo tutti i sintomi, senza possibilità di errore, e il principale era "una generale avversione nei confronti di qualsiasi tipo di attività".

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

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

I'm still tired and sleeping all the time and still not enough. My arms are just hanging down at my sides and I don't feel like doing anything at all. And I don't have any desire — for nothing, not money, not my mother, not Therese.

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

so I don't fucking kill myself of boredom

Even boredom has its crises.

I'm dying of boredom. Or maybe just dying.

Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.

When idleness is forced on someone without a handsome income, it just produces a severe drop in self-esteem, and general listlessness. As John Hay-worth, a psychologist at the University of Manchester, has shown, young men out of work, even when paid relatively generous unemployment compensation, have a very hard time finding satisfaction in their lives.