Quote by George Eliot

“Unhappiness, which also possesses a clearness of vision of its own, augmented the small amount of daylight which existed in this mind.”

— Victor Hugo

“Why is dissatisfaction taken to be a mark of failing powers and patience, when it might just as easily be understood as a proper…

— Howard Jacobson

“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes…

— Colm Tóibín

“happiness is not the surplus of pleasant over unpleasant moments. Rather, happiness consists in seeing one’s life in its entirety as meaningful and worthwhile.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools.”

— Philip Dormer Stanhope

“Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression.”

— Susanna Kaysen

“lest the habit of work should be broken, and a taste for idleness acquired”

— John Stuart Mill

“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house, the solitude,…

— Seneca

“Idleness does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formualries of the ruling class.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of…

— Meher Baba

“When the mind experiences something pleasant, it craves that the pleasure will remain and will intensify. Therefore, the mind is always dissatisfied and restless.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“…Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.”

— Nancy Kress