“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”

“He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!”

“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”

“the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.”

“I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectability of his life and who one evening recognized that he had never loved her. He had been bored, thats all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen even loveless slavery, even war or death.”

“It is almost impossible to watch a clockwise direction - it gets extremely boring and causes despair.”

“Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.”