A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
We look wishfully to emergencies to eventful revolutionary times ... and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
They sicken of the calm that know the storm.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
Man lives by habits indeed but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war it is excitement.
Boredom is rage spread thin.
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.
One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary or any other reward he would be eager to spend his energy in so...
Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.
If your daily life seems poor do not blame it blame yourself tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Being bored is an insult to oneself.
Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
Boredom is a sickness of the soul.
Boredom is simply the lack of imagination.
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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