quotes about Ennui
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Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.
-- Aaron Allston -
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
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... 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.
-- Margaret HalseySource : Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”
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I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui.
-- Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand -
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.
-- Max Stirner -
The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
-- Oscar Wilde -
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We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.
-- Sophie Swetchine -
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.
-- Helen Westley -
Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.
-- Ninon de L'Enclos -
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Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.
-- Ninon de L'Enclos