Top 88 Ennui Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on October 6, 2024.
It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.
Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
One of ennui's most terribel components is the overwhelming feeling of ennui that comes over you whenever you try to explain it.
People collect boredom, they hoard it, they wallow in it, hoping that one day it'll be of interest and become an effete ennui. Let me tell you, it doesn't.
I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui.
... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.
Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.
This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.
Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.
Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.
Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.
Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
'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.
Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.
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 state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.
I wouldn't wish my consort to suffer ennui.
Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
If smart phones had been around for women in the 1950s, 'The Feminine Mystique' might never have been written. The depression and ennui of housewives would have been blunted by Pinterest and Facebook.
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.
What saved me from total academic failure and overwhelming ennui, was my love of libraries and all they encompass.
music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.
I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.
My point is, to emulate dead animals and their parts as decoration is pretty disgusting, and as a design statement, it also fills me with ennui.
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
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.
And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence of a disruptive symbiotic relationship between ourselves and vegetable nature.
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
The song 'Take This Job and Shove It' spent 18 weeks on the country charts in 1977. 1970s country music fans had a clearer understanding of the ennui of wage-slavery than modern elites.
If you want to live in 'white world,' if you want to experience the stultifying boredom and penetrating ennui that homogeneity can bring, you can go to Canada any day of the year. It's an entire country named Doug.
The curse of the great is ennui.
Now is the autumn of our ennui.
The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.
The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.
Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty.
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.
Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.
Adrenalin dispels boredom. Run, you sufferers from ennui! Run for your lives!
Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.
Baseball consists of a million threads of dullness, on a loom of ennui, woven into a tapestry of tedium.
There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety.
Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.
If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.
Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.
Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom
