Around here there’s not much to do, I’m afraid. Actually, I’m lying. That’s not one of my fears.

Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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

No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.

Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.

Boredom is the very opposite of beauty and truth. Life has been sacrificed to profit, and the result is boredom on a massive scale.

You've already said you were going to kill me," Alex said, "but I didn't think that meant you were going to bore me to death.

As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for grandchildren.

For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.