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title: "6 Pain Boredom Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-kreeft/the-most-total-opposite-of-pleasure-is-not-pain-but-boredom-for-we/)

[Peter Kreeft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-kreeft/)

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> [When you were a child, where boredom could actually get to be painful. Sociopaths experience that kind of pain in boredom. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-stout/when-you-were-a-child-where-boredom-could-actually-get-to-be-painful/)

[Martha Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-stout/)

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> [Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-schopenhauer/life-swings-like-a-pendulum-backward-and-forward-between-pain-and/)

[Arthur Schopenhauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-schopenhauer/)

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> [Discomfort is a pain. Boredom is a pain. A perfect piece of music can reduce us to tears. Every one of these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruben-papian/discomfort-is-a-pain-boredom-is-a-pain-a-perfect-piece-of-music-can/)

[Ruben Papian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruben-papian/)

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> [The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-schopenhauer/the-two-foes-of-human-happiness-are-pain-and-boredom/)

[Arthur Schopenhauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-schopenhauer/)

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> [The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-schopenhauer/the-two-enemies-of-human-happiness-are-pain-and-boredom/)

[Arthur Schopenhauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-schopenhauer/)

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