Ennui Quotes

Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.

Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

I am wrapped in dismal thinking.

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.

Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui.

We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.

Adrenalin dispels boredom. Run, you sufferers from ennui! Run for your lives!

The curse of the great is ennui.

The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.

I wouldn't wish my consort to suffer ennui.

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

Now is the autumn of our ennui.

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.

... 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.