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“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 hi...”
“For lack of love one does a million other things.”
“Faith gives you a concept of the dignity and worth of all work, even simple work, without which work could bore you.”
“What was the fun of being upper-class if you had to work so hard to appear bored all the time?”
“What is boredom? Endless repetitions, like, for example, Navidsons corridors and rooms, which are consistently devoid of any Myst-like discoveries thus causing us to lose interest. What then makes ...”
“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
“Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.”
“Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.”
“The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.”
“She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in a single instant, the curtains had been whipped aside, and ...”
“Those diversions sparked her life with momentary excitement. Without them, Charis felt she would be driven mad by the unrelenting sameness of life in the palace. Now and again she imagined that she...”
“The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.”
“The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.”
“Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.”
“Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.”
“He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human comm...”
“Boredom is the fear of self.”
“Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear”
“Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate. Only on occasion--and fear considers this very important--does it want to know how things stand with me.”
“The world, I tell you, is bored -- bored now to the explosive pitch. It's bored by all this incessant war preparation. It is bored by aimless violence, now here, now there. It is tired of hatred po...”
