Boredom

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

I am bored to death with it.

Bored to death with this place,

bored to death with my life,

bored to death with myself.

-Charles Dickens

 

Somebody's boring me.

I think it's me.

-Dylan Thomas

 

All boredom has to do with

disconnection from the self.

-Chris Griscom

 

Boredom expresses the subjective emptiness of inner ambivalence

that does not permit any emotion to come to the surface.

-Joost A. M. Meerloo

 

A desire for desires - boredom

-Leo Tolstoy

Boredom is your imagination calling you.

-Brene Brown

 

You'll find boredom

where there is the absence of a good idea.

-Earl Nightingale

 

There is no reason why you should be bored

when you can be otherwise.

-Emily Post

 

I am never bored anywhere:

being bored is an insult to oneself.

-Jules Renard

 

Is not life a hundred times too short

for us to bore ourselves?

-Friedrich Nietzsche