“One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.”
Heinrich Heine
“Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.”
George Steiner
“I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil”
Voltaire
“How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.”
William Gaddis
“leave a man in a cave long enough and he's bound to write on the walls”
Josh DeGeorge
“Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.”
R. I. Fitzhenry
