We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.
David BottomsTag: life boredom new-beginnings changes new breaking-the-rules breaking-free
Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.
Peter KreeftTag: philosophy christianity spirituality violence theology boredom catholicism sloth jesus-shock
Boredom, that traitorous devil that posseses us to do things sometimes useless, and often stupid.
Apol Lejano-MassebieauTag: boredom
Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a perilous world, some hostile people, and a not very sensitive government.
Carl CohenTag: justice prison state government boredom threat rights act experiment coercion
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
Peter KreeftTag: philosophy christianity pleasure spirituality theology boredom catholicism jesus-shock
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.
Criss JamiTag: humor people cynicism funny cynic cynical boredom boring mediocrity activity contagious yawn bore yawning
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine ― that is, activity ― which could solve it, is seen as odious.
Archery? It is too cold, and besides, the butts need re-covering; the rats have been at the straw.
Music? To hear it is tedious; to compose it, too taxing. And so on.
Of all the afflictions, boredom is ultimately the most unmanning.
Eventually, it transforms you into a great nothing who does nothing ― a cousin to sloth and a brother to melancholy.
Tag: boredom
I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.
Shelby FooteTag: perfection boredom utopia
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
Peter KreeftTag: inspirational philosophy christianity god heaven spirituality theology boredom catholicism hearts jesus-shock
The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.
Peter KreeftTag: philosophy christianity theology boredom catholicism christ jesus-shock francis-of-assisi lady-poverty saint-francis st-francis-of-assisi troubadour
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