All ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Quotes about “Boredom”

“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
“If life â€” the craving for which is the very essence of our being â€” 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.”
“Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.”
“That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to 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 the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.”
“If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.”
“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.”
“People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.”

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