#boredom

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#boredom #both #depend #fascination #inside

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#boredom #choose #life #must #suffering

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. ↗

— Rumi

#cup #disappear #fills #front #hurt

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#only #out #psychiatrist #see #should

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. ↗

— Stendhal

#age #boredom #cure #curse #even

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination. ↗

— Susan Ertz

#anger

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine ― that is, activity ― which could solve it, is seen as odious. Archery? It is too cold, and besides, the butts need re-covering; the rats have been at the straw. Music? To hear it is tedious; to compose it, too taxing. And so on. Of all the afflictions, boredom is ultimately the most unmanning. Eventually, it transforms you into a great nothing who does nothing ― a cousin to sloth and a brother to melancholy. ↗

— Margaret George

#music

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge. ↗

— Ally Carter

#faith #fear #greed #love #revenge

I once inscribed the word "Ennui" backwards on my forehead, and I was so bored that I stared at it in the mirror for hours. And at the end of that time, I felt like Sheryl Crow, and I looked like Aleister Crowley. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#bored #boredom #ennui #funny #mirror