Boredom quotes

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. (Voltaire)

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. ( Arthur Schopenhauer )

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. ( Richard Bach)

The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom. ( Arthur Schopenhauer )

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)

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom. ( Bertrand Russell)

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. ( Heinrich Heine)

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. ( Anatole France)

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. (Confucius)

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed. ( Lewis Mumford )

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