Bored Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

— Dorothy Parker

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

— Dorothy Parker

“An absence of mistrust is not enough; there must be a weariness of mistrusting, and, as it were, courage must be impatient with the…

— Stendhal

In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.

— Zicheng Hong

“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

“In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair...

— Martin Seligman

No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our…

— Susie Orbach

Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to…

— Fanny Burney

“It might be said that in the sublime feeling, thinking becomes impatient, despairing, disinterested in attaining the ends of freedom by means of nature.”

— Zinzi Clemmons

“All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering”

— Stefan Molyneux