#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

#crossword #kills #mental #puzzles #read

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#despairing #evil #oneself #refusal #root

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

#back #backwards #beginning #beings #bored

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

— Bertrand Russell

#caused #fear #half #mankind #moralist

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#boredom #brings #life #straight #too

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#concentrate #concentration #helps #homework #induces

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#boredom #both #depend #fascination #inside

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#boredom #choose #life #must #suffering

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#ardor #boredom #excites #known #scholars

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom. ↗

— Peter Straub

#boredom #everything #expire #i #out