taedium vitae

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This taedium vitae, he explains, grows out of Werther’s reading: The soulful proto-Romantic mediates the world through books rather than taking part directly in life.

From Washington Post • May 16, 2017

Menzhinsky died of what Europeans still call taedium vitae.

From Time Magazine Archive

There have been alleged instances of peoples which have dwindled and even disappeared from taedium vitae.

From Outspoken Essays by Inge, William Ralph

Beyond the natural interest a soldier has for imaginative minds in the civil walks of life, De Stancy's occasional manifestations of taedium vitae were too poetically shaped to be repellent.

From A Laodicean : a Story of To-day by Hardy, Thomas

Were oats rising in the market?—or was he in love?—or vexed by politics?—or could a horse, and a young one rising four, be supposed to suffer from taedium vitae?'

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas