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Now is the autumn of our ennui.
I am wrapped in dismal thinking.
The curse of the great is ennui.
Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.
I wouldn't wish my consort to suffer ennui.
The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.
Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui.
Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
Adrenalin dispels boredom. Run, you sufferers from ennui! Run for your lives!
That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.
We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.
The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.
The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.
Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.
Baseball consists of a million threads of dullness, on a loom of ennui, woven into a tapestry of tedium.
What saved me from total academic failure and overwhelming ennui, was my love of libraries and all they encompass.
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
... 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.
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.
My point is, to emulate dead animals and their parts as decoration is pretty disgusting, and as a design statement, it also fills me with ennui.
People collect boredom, they hoard it, they wallow in it, hoping that one day it'll be of interest and become an effete ennui. Let me tell you, it doesn't.
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.
The song 'Take This Job and Shove It' spent 18 weeks on the country charts in 1977. 1970s country music fans had a clearer understanding of the ennui of wage-slavery than modern elites.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
If smart phones had been around for women in the 1950s, 'The Feminine Mystique' might never have been written. The depression and ennui of housewives would have been blunted by Pinterest and Facebook.
'Extract' was kind of a grown up 'Office Space' in the sense of talking about the ennui of being a successful person in America if you don't have some real passion in your life for something to care about.
I don't think I'll ever get that tour ennui. Just getting to visit New York and all these different places - I'm always so excited to look at the window. I look like a crazy tourist stumbling around... 'This is beautiful.'