Ennui is the echo
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. Emile M. Cioran
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Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. Emile M. Cioran
Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time. Emile M. Cioran
Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother. Edmund Clarence Stedman
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 … Read more
Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it. Francoise d’Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon
Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later — the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui — these are the true hero’s enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real. David Foster Wallace
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel. D. H. Lawrence
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Chuck Palahniuk
Now is the autumn of our ennui. Chuck Palahniuk
Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash. Chuck Palahniuk