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* A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

 
* Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
- Virginia Woolf


 



 


 



* Tedium is the worst pain.
- John Gardner, Grendel

* Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
- Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

* 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: the desire for desires.
o Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

* Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
- Jean Baudrillard

* Boredom is not an end product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

* Boredom is the root of all evil—the despairing refusal to be oneself.
- Søren Kierkegaard

* Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
- Emile Cioran, History and Utopia

 

* Against boredom even the gods contend in vain. - Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 48

* Many felt there was something not quite right about a man who professed himself so profoundly bored with the subject of sport. - Neil McKenna, of Oscar Wilde, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde, 2005, p. 4

 

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