#boredom

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#monotony #life

Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#boredom #hell #imagination

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring. ↗

— Zelda Fitzgerald

#write

Boredom: the desire for desires. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#desire #desires

That's right,' she told the girls. 'You are bored. And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be. ↗

— Maria Semple

#life

Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#happiness #life #life

Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life? ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#life #life

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#existence #life #value #life

Lying is not a sin, since there has never been a law-maker or philosopher who could determine what truth is. I lie for the fun of it. I lie for the fear of the gravity of life. I lie out of boredom. How can anyone who has more fantasy than the Catholic evening paper get by without lying? ↗

— Iwan Goll

#truth-boredom #life

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#eye #joy #laughter #pain #smile