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 Category: Boredom
Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative. – Le Duc de Lévis, Mémoires Category: Boredom
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. – C.C. Colton Category: Boredom
A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, “by not swallowing them.” – Charles Edward Montague, Dramatic Values Category: Perspective
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. – Charles Caleb Colton Category: Miscellaneous
