What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!
Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are no longer fed by anything but sudden changes and constantly renewed stimuli. We can no longer bear anything that lasts. We no longer know how to make boredom bear fruit. So the whole question comes down to this: can the human mind master what the human mind has made?
Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.
Boredom is. . . a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.
Existence for eternity could get a little boring. . . especially towards the end.
Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
Boredom has to be the most life sapping, mental disease you can be afflicted with. The most accurate definition of boredom I have ever heard is this - Boredom is the absence of a creative idea. But there is a simple cure - begin to think immediately of a better way to do something. The creative juices are within you but you must turn on the tap. Those who are bored are not living; they are dying. When their heart stops beating, it will be a mere formality. The best way to do anything has never been thought of. Get on a creative improvement kick and jar others mentally into the same activity.
Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.
Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws.
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable. . . It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Another thing that's fun for sociopath is speed, literal speed, going very fast in your car. Not that everybody who goes fast in their car is a sociopath, by any means, but anything that gives you a rush will lessen your sense of boredom.
Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.
People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.
