What is boredom quote

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering. The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. Arthur Schopenhauer. Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. Thomas Carlyle. Boredom is the root of all evil — the despairing refusal to be oneself. There are lots of things you can do when you are bored , including starting a new hobby or taking an online course.

If you want to put your boredom to good use, why not sign up to volunteer with the Army Cadet Force? Working with us a couple evenings a week and occasional weekends is a great way to fight boredom while gaining new skills and giving back to a community of young people. The ACF has over 9, adult volunteers across the UK who train young cadets and manage organisational processes. Chesterton, reminding us that boredom comes from within. Bertrand Russell 1 Copy.

Emil M. Cioran 0 Copy. Boredom is simply the absence of an interesting perspective. Brandon A. Trean 0 Copy. Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. Aldous Huxley 0 Copy. I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity. Robert M. Pirsig 0 Copy. The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. Susan Sontag 0 Copy. Boredom is your imagination calling to you. Sherry Turkle 0 Copy.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you. Eckhart Tolle 0 Copy. When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting. Jon Kabat-Zinn 0 Copy. Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. Marilyn vos Savant 0 Copy. The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer 0 Copy. Immunity to boredom gives the computer an edge. Alan Lakein 0 Copy. I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. All kinds are good except the kind that bores you. Voltaire 0 Copy. The life of the creative person is led, directed, and controlled by boredom. Saul Steinberg 0 Copy. Boredom is like a pitiless zooming-in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

Charlotte Whitton 0 Copy. Boredom is the highest mental state. Albert Einstein 0 Copy. Extreme boredom serves to distract us from boredom. We have a world of pleasures to win, and nothing to lose but boredom. Raoul Vaneigem 0 Copy. A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them.

Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office every day. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do. Auden 0 Copy. Dorothy Parker 0 Copy. Entertainment is, in fact, the biggest cause of boredom in the modern world. The more man is entertained, the more bored he grows. Anthony Daniels 0 Copy.