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boredom

«Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies»
«Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence.»
Author: Leo Stein | Keywords: boredom, emptiness, insistence
«Boredom: the desire for desires»
«I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.»
«Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.»
«Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.»
«Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.»
«A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.»
«God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment -- but many other things ceased as well!»
«Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.»

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