Ennui Quotes

Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

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

Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

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 losses, and I light a cigarette.

He thought of hanging himself, to pass the time.

She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal.

Some people just live out their whole lives with some sort of ache in their heart they never resolve.

The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it.

When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.

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 my chains!("Outcries")

Boredom looms over the liveliest lessons, seeking to destroy.

HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)