#boredom

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The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.


Bruno Schulz


#indifference #boredom

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.


Shelby Foote


#perfection #utopia #boredom

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.


Walter Annenberg


#boredom #hold #into #knots #laziness

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.


Isaac Asimov


#believe #boredom #even #even worse #fearing

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.


Walter Benjamin


#bird #boredom #dream #drives #egg

... he preferred being stimulated to being bored.


Ruth Harris


#decades #life-and-living #life

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?


Raoul Vaneigem


#die #dying #entails #guarantee #risk

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

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.


Soren Kierkegaard


#despairing #evil #oneself #refusal #root

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.


Soren Kierkegaard


#back #backwards #beginning #beings #bored