Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
I don't understand the joy of sitting in my house with nothing to do.
If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.
Boredom is the deadliest poison.
The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored.
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.
Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.
I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.
Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.
And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.
And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.
Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.
...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.
Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
I am most scared of being bored
Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together in a closed room.
Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails.
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
Boredom is not a thing. It's not a feeling or a condition. It is the absence of feelings, things and conditions.
Boredom is a horrible thing.
Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.
The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.
Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
