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“God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment -- but many other things ceased as well!”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“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
“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.”
“Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need”
Voltaire
“There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.”
Viggo Mortensen
“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.”
“The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.”
Susan Sontag
“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.”
Wayne Dyer
“Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.”
Soren Kierkegaard
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