77 Quotes About Ennui

You said she had a condition?” Terry looked questioningly at me. “Ennui. It’s like boredom, except you think it makes you interesting.

Persons of good sense are necessarily dull, because they revolve over and over again the tedious topics of everyday life.

…I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another. The opposite of boredom, in a word, is not pleasure, but excitement.

Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate of the sadist who stuck the pin and walked away

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.

Looking at Tim, one cannot help feeling great waves of uncertainty, an absence of aim, of purpose, as if he is a person who simply doesn’t matter.

I had money, I had days, I had ennui; together they would have killed me had I not bought the tickets." -- Our Uncle Zubi