#boredom

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom? ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#fear #history #our #result #ultimately

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#constant #effect #enlightenment #facts #freedom

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. ↗

— William Gaddis

#beyond #books #boredom #come #dying

Sooner barbarity than boredom. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#boredom #sooner #than

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#boredom #find #good #good idea #idea

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. ↗

— Pappy Boyington

#few #flying #hours #seconds #sheer

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

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

— Gus Van Sant

#boredom #brings #life #straight #too

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#boredom #choose #life #must #suffering

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

— Peter Straub

#boredom #everything #expire #i #out