Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another. The opposite of boredom, in a word, is not pleasure, but excitement.
I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.
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...
Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it.
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.
What is boredom? Endless repetitions, like, for example, Navidson’s corridors and rooms, which are consistently devoid of any Myst-like discoveries thus causing us to lose interest. What then makes anything exciting? Or better yet: what is exciting...
Boredom was at the root of Lazare's unhappiness, an oppressive, unremitting boredom, exuding from everything like the muddy water of a poisoned spring. He was bored with leisure, with work, with himself even more than with others. Meanwhile he blamed...
In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic that you could tease out, that even in this overdeveloped late-capitalist world, that boredom was still this kind of critical ener...
Clarity keeps you from boredom.
Boredom is the fear of self.
You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads—in particular, what he likes and what he disdains—as from what he writes himself.
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
Eternal Boredom Of The Strifeless Mind
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
Even boredom has its crises.
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Boredom comes from a boring mind.
Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.
For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.
The Beatles saved the world from boredom.
