Quotes about Ennui

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The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it. — Don DeLillo, Zero K
Boredom looms over the liveliest lessons, seeking to destroy. — Marina Leigh Hatfield
There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regar — Theodore Dalrymple
Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of — Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Socrates tried to soothe us, true enough. He said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, aft — Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift
Soon, what was tedious was everything. 'Beautiful things, they're so tedious! Paintings, they're enough to drive you mad — Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
A bouquet yellow like remorse Hurts my view The cage The wheel The vile ennui of all mankind And no one no one to break — Hélène Baronne d’Oettingen, The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology