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ennui

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1. ennui - Noun

2. ennui - Verb

Meaning

A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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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. Helen Keller

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui. Emil Cioran

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. Emil Cioran

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. Charles Caleb Colton

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire. George Bancroft

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui. Oscar Wilde

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