Quotes about Ennui

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I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, we — Edward Gorey
HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT B — Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
Mais, j’aurai beau supplier, j’aurai beau me révolter, il n’y aura plus rien pour moi ; je ne serai, désormais, ni heure — Henri Barbusse, Hell
I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. Fo — David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace — Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, d — Christopher Brookmyre, A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- — Jack Kerouac
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy — Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time. — Emil M. Cioran, All Gall Is Divided: Aphorisms
What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic po — Erik Pevernagie
Yes, Doc, I'm not feeling too well.'Which was true enough, Kwang Meng considered.He had honestly not been feeling too we — Goh Poh Seng, If We Dream Too Long
Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, gave his physicians s — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
For he has faith enough, he feels, if he were really to delve into himself, faith enough to move mountains, but he canno — Jens Peter Jacobsen
Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, ins — Michael Bassey Johnson
And I did nothing, nothing but try to hide from the horror of dying." He stopped, for saying the truth aloud was unendur — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
None of it made any difference. The hollow feeling refused to go away. The next days were very hard. I found myself in t — Paul Murray
I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents n — Neal Shusterman, Dread Locks
There's so much I should say, so many things I should tell him, but in the end I tell him nothing.I cut a line and my lo — Clint Catalyst, Cottonmouth Kisses
Having arrived at this point, he had found no direction in which to go save that of further withdrawal into a subjectivi — Paul Bowles, The Spider's House