Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.
Lars Fredrik Händler SvendsenTags: boredom
One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close to a state of un-attunement as we can come.
Lars Fredrik Händler SvendsenTags: boredom mood attunement
For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.
Lars Fredrik Händler SvendsenA utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the ‘utopia’ we are living in is boring.
Lars Fredrik Händler SvendsenAnd while you and the rest of your kind are battling together—year after year—for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl' that you're asking about, the marvelous girl, the girl with the big, beautiful, unspoken thoughts in her head, the girl with the big, brave, undone deeds in her heart, the girl that stories are made of, the girl whom you call 'improbable'—is moping off alone in some dark, cold corner—or sitting forlornly partnerless against the bleak wall of the ballroom—or hiding shyly up in the dressing-room—waiting to be discovered!
Eleanor Hallowell AbbottTags: love girls women boredom waiting-for-true-love
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
Isaac AsimovTags: religion heaven afterlife hell boredom
My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryWe are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.
François de La RochefoucauldThe glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom.
When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies.
Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
Tags: pain laughter joy smile boredom eye
The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.
Bruno SchulzTags: indifference boredom
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