Colin Wilson Quotes

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.

Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.

Boredom is the beginning of all destruction and everything that is negative.

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

Even boredom has its crises.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored.

To be bored to death is a form of suicide.

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there are few which are as painful as boredom, and consequently every attempt is made to avoid it.

...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust.

Boredom is a horrible thing.

Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.

Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.

"I am bored" generally means "I am boring."

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling lust, from feeling anything at all.

Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty.

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

Do I look like I have anything ?" I asked him, in a reasonable voice. He looked as unnerved as the nurse had. He said, "Sorry," and backed away. I took a step after him. I screamed, "I HAVE NOTHING!" And then I said, in a perfectly calm voice, "See, I never had anything to start with.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.