Definition of Ennui

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Definition of Ennui
	Ennui A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium. Related Definitions: And, Arising, Disgust, Dullness, Feeling, From, Interest, Languor, Of, Or, Satiety, Tedium, Want, Weariness

Ennui Quotations

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

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

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

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
Emile M. Cioran

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

Ennui Translations

ennui in French is ennui
ennui in German is Langeweile
ennui in Hungarian is unalom
ennui in Italian is uggia
ennui in Spanish is aburrimiento

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