Ennui Quotes

“Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.”

“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.”

“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.”

“In a lifeworld, where we can be what we are, and not what people expect us to be, we can escape a blank and void existence, which is linked to wrecking ennui. Boredom often slips into revulsion and nausea, for not being able to find an identity and not succeeding in acquiring individuality with the quality of authenticity. ("Like a frozen image")”

“The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.”

“Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian.”

“Pain indolence sterility endless ennui have also their lesson for you.”

“Ennui had more distractions far more amusing than the automatons of a watchmaker in Mühlenberg.”

“Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes ennui of the higher ones.”