#boredom

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like "Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else." and "Who cares?" and "It's all bullshit anyway. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#apathy #boredom #bullshit #europeans #goodness

Charles' conversation was as flat as a street pavement, on which everybody's ideas trudged past, in their workday dress, provoking no emotion, no laughter, no dreams. At Rouen, he said, he had never had any desire to go and see a Paris company at the theatre. He couldn't swim, or fence, or fire a pistol, and was unable to explain a riding term she came across in a novel one day. Wheras a man, surely, should know about everything; excel in a multitude of activities, introduce you to passion in all its force, to life in all its grace, initiate you in all mysteries! But this one had nothing to teach; knew nothing, wanted nothing. He thought she was unhappy; and she hated him for that placid immobility, that stolid serenity of his, for that very happiness which she herself brought him. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#contentment #static #dreams

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christianity #jesus-shock #philosophy #sloth

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

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. ↗

— Albert Camus

#habits #boredom

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

— Thomas Szasz

#everything #feeling #nothing #serenity #time

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

— Confucius

#constraints #inspire #often #people #revenge

Art has something to do with beauty. The act of creating beauty pulls the portion of your soul to the surface that is true to the way you were created. ↗

— Timothy Simpson

#beauty #boredom-to-brilliance #creative-process #timothy-simpson #art

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever. ↗

— Viggo Mortensen

#bored #boredom #crazy #depressed #ever

I've been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#boredom #boring #sleep #baseball