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«Employment and ennui are simply incompatible»
Author: Dorothe Deluzy | Keywords: employment, ennui
«Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen»
Author: Luke Rhinehart | About: Life | Keywords: age of, ecstasy, ennui, islands, ocean, The Age, thirty
«Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.»
Author: M. F. K. Fisher | About: Family | Keywords: accompanied, dinners, ennui, indigestion, jitters, more often than not, nervous, ordeal, ordeals, preceded, psychosomatic, resentment
«To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu (Philosopher, Politician) | About: Books, Reading | Keywords: ennui, exchange
«TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: Affirmed, apparently, derivation, derivations, ennui, fanciful, hymn, jape, Latin, natural state, saddened, saddening, saddens, tedium
«Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.»
Author: Buddha | Keywords: as many, avarice, despair, drunkards, ennui, gamblers, suicides, The Gambler, thirst, thirsted, thirsting
«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.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | Keywords: boredom, contemplation, despondency, draught, draughts, duties, ennui, entrenched, entrenches, fountain, innermost, profoundest, quarter, receives, refreshes, refreshing, such as
«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.»
Author: Helen Keller (Author, Educator) | About: Devil | Keywords: Die in, ennui, expend, expended, expending, expends, tracks
«The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish, - all duties even»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Affection | Keywords: affections, duties, ennui, indulge, metamorphoses, tragedies, vanish, winter
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