The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. Read Summary
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. Read Summary
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic. Read Summary
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them. Read Summary
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them. Read Summary
Boredom: the desire for desires. Read Summary
I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate. Read Summary
I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got bored. Read Summary
We get bored because we don't want to sit with our fears. We don't want to sit with our anxiety. We don't want to sit with our stress because it's uncomfortable. Read Summary
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. Read Summary
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do. Read Summary
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom? Read Summary
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom. Read Summary
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. Read Summary
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. Read Summary
I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring. Read Summary
I like boring things. Read Summary