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“Boredom is a mask that frustration wears.”

— Neal Stephenson

“I became bored - that was all. Boredom, which is another name and a frequent disguise for vitality, became the unconscious motive of all…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Boredom, that traitorous devil that posseses us to do things sometimes useless, and often stupid.”

— Apol Lejano-Massebieau

“Boredom was at the root of Lazare's unhappiness, an oppressive, unremitting boredom, exuding from everything like the muddy water of a poisoned spring. He…

— Émile Zola

“He was a master in the art of spreading boredom and playing the clumsy fool-though never so egregiously that people might enjoy making fun…

— Patrick Süskind

“A man must assume the moral burden of his own boredom.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Trouble is our only defense against boredom.”

— Chris Fuhrman

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

— Nancy Kress

“Simm watched the hanging with disgust. Why would the young man pretend to be a spy when he had no skills and no natural…

— Dory Codington

“Boredom is the laboratory where new enthusiasms prepare themselves,”

— Steven Heighton

“BOREDOM IS A new challenge and responsibility.”

— Alain de Botton

“Boredom is the fear of self.”

— Marie Josephine Suin De Beausacq