boredom quotes

• Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. (Jean Baudrillard) [boredom/time/face]
• Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. (Walter Benjamin) [boredom/bird/experience]
• People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater. (Kenneth Clark) [people/people/boredom]
• The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. () [boredom/present]
• Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. (Anatole France) [boredom]
• Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. (Aldous Leonard Huxley) [boredom/agreeable/boredom/pleasure]
• Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself. (Soren Kierkegaard) [boredom]
• 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. (Soren Kierkegaard) [boredom/boredom/evil/wonder]
• The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance. (Malcolm Muggeridge) [thing/more/boredom/sex]
• Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [boredom/fight]
• One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [boredom/solitude/books/duties]
• Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom. (Bertrand Russell) [boredom]
• Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. (Bertrand Russell) [boredom/problem/mankind/fear]
• Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. (Susan Sontag) [boredom/being/situation]
• One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom. (Muriel Spark) [boredom]
• The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. (Saul Steinberg) [life/boredom/boredom]
• Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic. (Virginia Woolf) [boredom]
• The idea that both a film and a book could be made about waiting and boredom, and make them entertaining, was pretty extraordinary. (Jake Gyllenhaal) [film/boredom]
• Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom. (Isabelle Adjani) [/boredom]
• It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture. (Jack Kevorkian) [boredom]

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