“Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying boredom—of long days of mild content.”
“The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.”
“There are long stretches of the work [Paradise Lost] that are for anyone not theologically minded sheer howling boredom from the point of view of the content.”
“Boredom looms over the liveliest lessons, seeking to destroy.”
“The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.”
“Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom”