#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 the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#everything #feeling #nothing #serenity #time

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#finds #rest #seeks #who #work

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. ↗

— Confucius

#constraints #inspire #often #people #revenge

Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like you’ve never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and it’s like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#television

He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations of a love whose subtleties he could no longer distinguish. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#crying #indifference #love #sadness #love

Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere. ↗

— Katie Dale

#wasting-time #worry #business

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity ↗

— George Steiner

#boredom