boredom Quotes

“Thus its life swings like a pendulum backwards and forwards between pain and ennui.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

topic:life pain boredom

“the dance floor is packed with people, most of them young, most of them bored, trying to look turned on.”

― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

topic:youth boredom

“The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:future boredom

“So I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody, most of them, and maybe they're secretly all terrific whistlers or something.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

topic:boredom hurting

“The more boring the child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

topic:education boredom

“Kind? . . . How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

topic:boredom kindness

“Something must happen—and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death.”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

topic:boredom

“His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:future boredom

“If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

topic:boredom

“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

topic:happiness boredom sin

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