“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.”
Ambrose Bierce
“To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“Employment and ennui are simply incompatible”
Dorothe Deluzy
“If it's purely derivative, you'd get bored quickly. But if it shares some of the basic elements — the big historical mystery wrapped inside contemporary suspense — and it delivers, then it's a happy discovery that you may not have found otherwise.”
Mitch Hoffman
“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”
Blaise Pascal
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.”
Chuang Tzu
