Arthur Schopenhauer Bored Quotations

The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom

Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.