Ennui Quotes
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
Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books
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
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.455
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
Letter to Martha Jefferson, 28 March (1787)
Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.17, Cambridge University Press
Quoted in Hesketh Pearson, Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946)
Nalini Singh (2013). “Archangel's Legion”, p.46, Penguin
Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.177
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.
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.76, Random House