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Description: It was like, you know, she was there in the class, you know, she was kind of typically French. You know, she was very chic, but she was very filled with ennui, you know. And she would be there, you know, kind of talking with the class, you know, talking about the, you know, the existential futility of life, you know.

Julien Baker

I don't think I'll ever get that tour ennui. Just getting to visit New York and all these different places - I'm always so excited to look at the window. I look like a crazy tourist stumbling around... 'This is beautiful.

American Musician

T. J. Miller

Extract' was kind of a grown up 'Office Space' in the sense of talking about the ennui of being a successful person in America if you don't have some real passion in your life for something to care about.

American Actor

Rachel Simmons

If smart phones had been around for women in the 1950s, 'The Feminine Mystique' might never have been written. The depression and ennui of housewives would have been blunted by Pinterest and Facebook.

American Author

Helen Keller

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.

A. A. Gill

People collect boredom, they hoard it, they wallow in it, hoping that one day it'll be of interest and become an effete ennui. Let me tell you, it doesn't.

British Writer

Hilary Farr

My point is, to emulate dead animals and their parts as decoration is pretty disgusting, and as a design statement, it also fills me with ennui.

British Designer

Max Stirner

If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.

German Philosopher

Steve Rushin

Baseball consists of a million threads of dullness, on a loom of ennui, woven into a tapestry of tedium.

American Journalist

Montesquieu

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

French Philosopher

Emil Cioran

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

Romanian Philosopher

Ennui reflects a negative feeling, suggesting dissatisfaction or a lack of excitement.

Negative Emotion

Ennui goes beyond boredom, implying a weariness with the world or life's activities.

Not Just Boredom

Often used in literature to describe a character's existential dissatisfaction.

Literary Usage

 It was like, you know, she was there in the class, you know, she was kind of typically French. You know, she was very chic, but she was very filled with ennui, you know. And she would be there, you know, kind of talking with the class, you know, talking about the, you know, the existential futility of life, you know.

Ennui

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