#boredom

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

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#kingdom #legitimate #philanthropic

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#awoke #book #boredom #dreamed #dull

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#insignificance #language #lesson #life #most

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation. ↗

— Lewis Cass

#acute #boredom #capable #creation #day

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

— Emile M. Cioran

#fear #history #our #result #ultimately

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#fully #lived #love #such #thing

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. ↗

— Anatole France

#despair #humanity #lies #perish #without

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