Suffering Quote by Victor Hugo

“Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Tim

“That can be the cruelest part of happiness--its tendency to disguise itself as boredom.”

— Marie-Helene Bertino

“Excessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor....”

— Émile Gaboriau

“Possibility of enjoying life makes death feel terrible.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“Boredom is the fear of self.”

— Marie Josephine Suin De Beausacq

“It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Boredom is the very opposite of beauty and truth. Life has been sacrificed to profit, and the result is boredom on a massive scale.”

— Tom Hodgkinson

“Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.”

— Sophocles

“I cannot think without a shudder of contracting any obligation towards death. I hate death; for, happy or miserable, life is the only blessing…

— Giacomo Casanova

“It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish”

— David Foster Wallace