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Ennui Quotes

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

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

Alexander Pushkin, James E. Falen (2009). “Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse”, p.41, Oxford University Press

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

Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.341, Oxford University Press on Demand

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.455

I am wrapped in dismal thinking.

Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, William Harvey, William Shakespeare (1831). “Tales from Shakspeare: designed for the use of young persons”, p.194

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

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.597

I wouldn't wish my consort to suffer ennui.

Nalini Singh (2013). “Archangel's Legion”, p.46, Penguin

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

"The Confessions of Helen Westley" by Djuna Barnes in New York Morning Telegraph Sunday Magazine, September 23, 1917.

Now is the autumn of our ennui.

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.76, Random House