Boredom Quote by Blaise Pascal

Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his…

— Blaise Pascal

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he…

— Blaise Pascal

There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he…

— Blaise Pascal

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of…

— Eric Hoffer

A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.

— Leo Buscaglia

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They…

— Emile Durkheim

Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other…

— Edmond de Goncourt

“The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely…

— Rollo May

The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone;…

— Josef Pieper

There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in…

— Blaise Pascal