“Boredom looms over the liveliest lessons, seeking to destroy.”
“The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.”
“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.”
“We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.”
“To seek pain as a formof salvation is to destroy oneself.”