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Ennui--bored to death.

The utter boredom of the mind and soul. Not just nothing to do. Nothing to be. When all of existence is exhausted and all pursuits are fruitless.

I think it takes place after a spiritual death of sorts.

What are your thoughts on this kind of boredom?
  • Boring Boorish bored Boor.
    When a person becomes so bored with existing that even suicide is an option, they aren't really human anymore are they? These could be the sociopaths maybe, no regard for human life. They'd do anything just to not be so bored. They don't have a fixed point of any kind. Life is less inspired for them. Life, existence, is boring.

    I have to write a paper on Svidrigailov in Crime and Punishment. I think he is just bored.

    Voted for by Brain Fetus.
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  • Too much time to think
    Not so long ago the majority of us would have been growing our own food, building our own house, washing/making/mending our clothes by hand, etc. You get the picture. Back then we didn't have time to get bored. These days we have too much time to think and too much time to worry.
    Voted for by Gaz H.
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  • Drink
    Whenever I feel like that, I just drink! My poisoned body then remembers to embrace all the little things I have that make life so wonderful, in spite of the fact "the bigger picture" seems subpar.
    Voted for by Weydon.
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  • ennuie
    It is the continual lacking of anything that can inspire any reaction. Be the reaction good, bad or even terrifying.It is nothing so simple as simply being bored. It is what happens after you have tasted and sampled damn near every experience on this earth and now you can not find a single one to compare to them.

    You begin by constantly trying. Taking risks, seeking experience anything so that you can just feel some sort of emotion other than this complete dispair in life. Than you reach the point where you realise noting will ever work and seem to simply float along in this fatalistic void niether caring or thinking about anything.

    Eventually there comes a time when even this becomes to much and you choose to seek that one last experience hoping that in death you might just tast something new, feel something!
    Voted for by ennuie.
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