| 1. | How the longest ennui flees, When a man comes to our knee. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 2. | Labor is the law he who rejects it will find ennui his torment. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | It is because symmetry is ennui, and ennui is at the very foundation of grief. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | Oh, believe me, that when three great passions, such as sorrow, love, and gratitude fill the heart, ennui can find no place.. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 5. | As we have said, he perfectly understood the old man's vocabulary, and if he did not use it more often, it was only indifference and ennui which prevented him from so doing. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 6. | At the Bois de Boulogne, ennui and hunger attacked me at once,--two enemies who rarely accompany each other, and who are yet leagued against me, a sort of Carlo-republican alliance. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |