Boredom

“If you grow bored so easily, perhaps it’s from listening to yourself.”

“Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.”

“If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.”

“Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?”

“A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.”

“Boredom helps one to make decisions.”

“Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.”

“Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.”

“Boredom is not an end product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.”

“But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows, in every corner of her heart.”

“Man is the only animal that can be bored.”

“I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.”

“Tedium is the worst pain.”

“Boredom is boredom. There is nothing to do, deal with it.”

“Many felt there was something not quite right about a man who professed himself so profoundly bored with the subject of sport.”

“Against boredom even the gods contend in vain.”

“Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.”

“It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up from boredom.”

“Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.”

“The way to be bored is to know where you are going and the way to get there.”

“Soon he [Vronsky] felt rising in his soul a desire for desires — boredom.”

“The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.”

“Once we can see how this question of freedom of the will has been vitiated by post-romantic philosophy, with its inbuilt tendency to laziness and boredom, we can also see how it came about that existentialism found itself in a hole of it’s own digging, and how the philosophical developments since then have amounted to walking in circles round that hole.”