#boredom

"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."

"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 commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!"

"HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)"

"There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge."

"The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die."

"The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting."

"Boredom is the fear of self."

"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."

"Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island."

"She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring."

"I'm bored with it all. - Last Words"

"Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more."

"At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel."

"When a man plays with your heart it is for one of two reasons: He knows he can or he is undecided."

"I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored."

"... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."

"I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring."

"Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia."

"What kind of life can you have in a house without books?"

"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"