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The real pleasure of being Mick Jagger was in having everything but being tempted by nothing ... a smouldering ill will which silk... - MORE The real pleasure of being Mick Jagger was in having everything but being tempted by nothing ... a smouldering ill will which silk clothes, fine food, wine, women, and every conceivable physical pampering somehow aggravated ... a drained and languorous, exquisitely photogenic ennui.

Anonymous Chronicler

ennui

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Adrenalin dispels boredom. Run, you sufferers from ennui! Run for your lives! Adrenalin dispels boredom. Run, you sufferers from ennui! Run for your lives!

Mason Cooley

boredom

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This Ennui, for which we Saxons had no name, this word of France has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves t... - MORE This Ennui, for which we Saxons had no name, this word of France has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

boredom | intellectuals

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I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactio... - MORE I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.

Gustave Flaubert

duty | work | conscience

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Full of ennui—that is to say, empty. Full of ennui—that is to say, empty.

Victor Hugo

boredom | emptiness

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In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever kno... - MORE In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

boredom | gambling

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All that blesses the step of the antelope
all the grace a giraffe lifts to the highest leaves... - MORE All that blesses the step of the antelope
all the grace a giraffe lifts to the highest leaves
all steadfastness and pleasant gazing, alien to ennui,
dwell secretly behind man's misery.

Denise Levertov

animals | mankind | Hopes for the Future

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One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom—such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bri... - MORE One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom—such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it—those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.

Friedrich Nietzsche

introspection

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If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we sho... - MORE 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.

Henry David Thoreau

ennui | labor

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What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture. That was present in the apes long before the brain ... - MORE What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture. That was present in the apes long before the brain began to develop. Nor is it the use of tools. It is something altogether new, a previously unknown quality: self-awareness. Animals, too, have awareness. They are aware of objects; they know this is one thing and that another. But when the human being as such was born he had a new and different consciousness, a consciousness of himself; he knew that he existed and that he was something different, something apart from nature, apart from other people, too. He experienced himself. He was aware that he thought and felt. As far as we know, there is nothing analogous to this anywhere in the animal kingdom. That is the specific quality that makes human beings human.

Erich Fromm

animals | humankind

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