Boredom Quote by Norman Mailer

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

— Norman Mailer

“Not the storm but the calm that slays me.”

— Kevin Young

He that slays shall be slain.

— Scottish Proverb

To Death I yield, but not to Doubt, who slays before!

— Edith M. Thomas

“Suppose two men at cards with nothing to wager save their lives. Who has not heard such a tale? A turn of the card.…

— Cormac McCarthy

This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the…

— Cormac McCarthy

War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.

— Cormac McCarthy

“We must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as vanished bison and the dodo,…

— H.G. Wells

The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.

— Sebastian Horsley

We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And…

— Tim Gunn

When people look in the mirror, sometimes they see are their shells in the mirror, nothing else.

— Anonymous

I'm bored of being bored because being bored is very boring

— Sachithra