#boredom

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

He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in the condition of a work of art, for he wanted to make this experience a masterpiece of experience which absolutely transcended the everyday. And this would annihilate the effects of the cruel drug, boredom, to which he was addicted although, perhaps, the element of boredom which is implicit in an affair so isolated from the real world was its principle appeal for him. ↗

— Angela Carter

#baudelaire #boredom #love #art

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom... ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#death #england #london #suburbia #death

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#living #working #life

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christianity #jesus-shock #philosophy #pleasure

Boredom is rage spread thin. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#rage #spread #thin

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press. ↗

— William Weld

#boredom #desperate #forgiven #much #press

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. ↗

— Manly Hall

#chaos #disillusionment #ends #leads #naturally

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good. ↗

— Nicholas Hoult

#boredom #good #lead #long-term

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