boredom

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

The three daughters of Hesperus, the Hesperides, fled to Italy from Africa. Aegle took her citrons to the country near Lake Garda, Arethusa bore her lemons to Liguria, and Hesperthusa sowed seed of oranges in the Campania Felix.

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.

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

To do the same thing over and over is not only boredom; it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not obtained by sudden flight But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern - unseen before, A path to higher destinies.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Bore: a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.