Alienation Quote by Richard Louv

“In the fourth century, John Cassian described a condition among his fellow monks that he called “acedia”: a “weariness or distress of heart . . .…

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

“In the Middle Ages, spiritual advisors always warned against a state that had a variety of names but was difficult to describe: inertia, ill…

— Dorothee Soelle

“Eternal Boredom Of The Strifeless Mind”

— Dean Cavanagh

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

— James Bridie

...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as…

— Alberto Moravia

“Boredom is merely a symptom of an apathetic soul.”

— Tim

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.

— Margaret George

“Boredom is a flight from what is important. Like workaholism and perfectionism, it is a way of distracting yourself from inner experiences. It occurs…

— Gary Zukav

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“That thing some people call boredom, in the correct if elusive dosage, can be a form of inoculation against itself. Once you struffle through…

— Philip Connors

“And what is boredom? Perhaps the inability to find meaning, to complete a perception, to arrive at an understanding: partly grasped, but forever just…

— Kate Millett