“Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.”
“There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom. ”
“This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
“If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.”
“It is possible to conceive of something even more terrible than a hell of suffering, and that is a hell of boredom.”
“Shattered by the cumulative effect of so much horror and death, Joan was again afflicted by a crisis of faith. How could a good and benevolent God let such a thing happen? How could He so terribly afflict even children and babies, who were not guilty of any sin?”